Author Archives: Nate

A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, North Carolina, on…

I think some of the antagonism towards listing in birders comes from the mistaken belief that one’s list is nothing…

I love birding games. Big Days, Big Years, County, state, and patch lists. I’m constantly on the lookout for different…

If birding is life, I haven’t been living much lately. Various projects and the day to day grind of being…

This past weekend I headed out to eastern North Carolina with a group of friends to try our hand at…

I realize that no one wants to hear about other people’s lists. It can be boring, for sure, but my…

Birders know why Alaska is known as The Last Frontier. Because when you’ve painstakingly built your life list over the…

The 19-teens were not a good time for North American birdlife. Not more than four years following the final breath…

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each offers…

There’s no species of bird more associated with the North American desert than Greater Roadrunner.  Just mention the bizarre giant…