Some animals lay beautiful green, brown, and even pink eggs. Considered to be one of the most attractive are the blue eggs laid by birds. Why do birds lay blue eggs? Well, the blue color has ...

These traits are shared with all chicken breeds, but what sets the blue egg layers apart are their eggs, of course. The eggs your birds lay are as different as their personalities. Chickens lay ...

The North Island brown kiwi is a flightless, nocturnal bird that lays the biggest egg relative to its body size. Marilyn Foehrenbach Q: I’ve read that ostriches lay the biggest eggs. But what ...

Birds lay eggs of surprising variety, and scientists have long wondered why. Could it be that certain shapes protect eggs from shattering? Or perhaps allow them to fit snugly in a nest?

That would be the egg of an Allen’s hummingbird. This tiny bird lays tiny eggs and lives in tiny nests. We are fortunate enough to get to see an Allen’s hummingbird lay an egg in its nest in a ...

When she’s ready to lay an egg, a female Cuculus canorus swoops to ... a retired photo editor who’s an avid wildlife photographer, observed the birds’ behavior in 2014 in Amsterdam, where ...