Birds have evolved to fit particular environments. Eggs have evolved along with the birds. The eggs that birds will lay this spring will vary in shape and color to facilitate successful hatching in a ...

Dear Pet Talk: I don’t have pets but keep active birdfeeders, so all the birds are my “pets in the wild.” Why do robins lay blue eggs? — Bird Lover Dear Bird Lover: I concur with you about wild birds ...

It seems like birds would want to hide their eggs, but there are hundreds of species that lay blue to blue-green eggs. Thanks ...

Curious researchers from the University of Lodz wanted to know if there were any substantial differences between eggs laid by city-dwelling blue tits and their forest-dwelling counterparts. To learn ...

Many passerine birds with open cup-shaped nests lay blue or blue-green eggs. In thrushes, blue eggs may be cryptic and provide camouflage by imitating spots of light on green leaves. Alternatively, ...

The world has witnessed white or brown-colored, chicken eggs as farm-processed, pastured-eggs or organic eggs generally, but an unusual discovery has sparked buzz. A rare incident in Davangere ...

Robins may be famous for their beautiful blue eggs, but ancient feathered dinosaurs beat them to the punch. Looking at fossil eggshells from China, researchers have found evidence that an omnivorous, ...

It may seem as simple as just that. An egg. The food that Atkins and Paleo diets made popular once again. The food that draws one of many dividing lines between vegetarians and vegans. But this ...

If you lay something on the ground, it’s bound to get dirty. And that’s a good thing — at least for blue-footed boobies, which lay their eggs in shallow nests dug into the dirt. The dirtier the egg, ...