Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. If you ever find a ...

Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the odds, they protect and guide their young from hatching to leaving the nest ...

The drab, speckle-breasted bird flipping pine straw in the yard had to be a fledgling. But who? Usually we ID a cryptically-colored baby bird by who feeds it. With the obvious exception of fledgling ...

During the middle of summer, many baby birds can be spotted out of their nests. While the fledglings may look like they’ve flown the coop too early, they probably don’t need your help, says Marcelle ...

Civil rights lawyer Catherine Sevcenko spends her spare time taking in and rehabilitating injured birds in Alexandria, Va. Many of the fledgling crows that appear at her door have fallen from nests, ...

A new face in your yard? The face of some strange, pale new bird, streaky and splotchy, with no clear field marks? And you wonder who it is. Fledglings, the term for birds just out of the nest, often ...

This spring, Pasadena Humane’s Wildlife Helpline has heard from many concerned callers who think they’ve found an injured or abandoned bird. Luckily, in most cases, the bird in question is not hurt or ...

Spring migration is over. It’s now prime nesting time for Georgia’s songbirds, most of which are incubating eggs or tending babies. Several year-round birds — bluebirds, cardinals, Carolina chickadees ...