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Looking to welcome more owls? These top-reviewed nesting boxes make it easy — many even come with mounting hardware and wood shavings to get you started.

Different birds look for different nest box styles and entrance sizes. Smaller songbirds like chickadees and wrens prefer snug entrance holes around 1 to 1.5 inches, while larger birds need bigger ...

Eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis), often referred to as “harbingers of spring,” are small — about 7 inches — cavity nesters often found near meadows. A relative of the robin, this native songbird ...

We have a large group of house sparrows that have taken over our front yard, especially the huge quince that provides thorny protective cover. I don’t particularly begrudge the house sparrows their ...

HARRISBURG — Spring might not be “just around the corner,” but bluebirds will be scouting out nesting sites before you know it, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission can help bring them and other ...

A Bellingham lumber yard, Upton residents, duck hunters and conservationists from around the state teamed up recently to donate materials and build 320 wood duck nesting boxes. On Feb. 10, ...

In the fall 2004 a working group that included the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Harry Enstrom Chapter of the Izaak Walton League collaborated to develop a wetland along Whiteley Creek in ...

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Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission biologists appear to be onto something that could change channel catfish management in many manmade lakes across the state. Wooden nesting boxes, where the cavity ...