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Learn how to support beneficial insects that pollinate plants in gardens, feed birds, help decompose organic matter, or eat parasites or other pests.

Chimney swifts are extraordinary insect-eating birds who spend most of their time in the air, coming down only to roost or feed their young—often in our chimneys or flues.

Keep hummingbirds healthy with a balanced diet.

By catering to caterpillars, you can create a butterfly garden.

Answers to your top questions about bird feeding including which foods attract which birds and when is food most or least helpful.

Crows can get in the trash and compost. These smart black birds are now common residents of cities and towns, but relocation is more effective and humane than poison.

Decaying logs and miniature bogs, hollowed stalks and piled rocks, nutritious pollen and leaves fallen: They’re not the stuff of traditional nursery rhymes and baby showers. But if wild mothers-to-be had gift registries, these natural supplies would top the list.

Instead of awe and wonder, fear is our default reaction to wildlife near our home, often leading to trapping, poisoning, or, in the case of small creatures, the angry stomp of a shoe. Here's why we should challenge our misguided assumptions about wildlife.

By choosing native plants, you can help put your garden to work for wildlife.

Here's how you can help bats, your friendly neighborhood night-flyers.

We should thank bats, not fear them. Whether you want to get bats out of your house, scare them away, protect their habitats, or have questions about bats and diseases, we can help.

What we do (or don’t do) outside affects whether wildlife live to see another spring. This winter, use this checklist to cultivate a year-round home for your wild neighbors.

Through careful observation and humane gardening, it doesn’t take long to see that many animals shape homelands for creatures large and small, often in hidden ways.

By transitioning your yard from grass to viable habitat, you can help wild animals come in for a soft landing.

Nature’s ultimate multitaskers give wildlife shelter, food and more, supporting the entire ecosystem.

Starlings are cavity-nesting birds and will use attics, vents, and ducts in homes to build nests for their eggs and to raise their young.

Whether you have a patio, balcony or rooftop, you can create pocket habitats by thinking from other species’ perspectives. Here’s how.

Of all sparrows, the non-native house sparrow is most often in conflict with humans because the birds are so good at adapting to our buildings and nesting in crevices.

From coast to coast, gardeners are putting down the power tools and letting nature take the lead.