In 1993, the eight-year-old son of a Middlebury teacher decided to name a crayon after an egg shell and won a contest that spanned the entire nation. Christopher Straub of Bristol, armed with quaint ...

In a robin couple, a male brings his female partner nesting material as she constructs the robins’ nest. The female builds the cup-like nest with mud as its foundation and lines it with grasses, twigs ...