Handsome but never flashy, the Old World Buntings are a fascinating family of birds. There are no fewer than...

I feel that like most bird families (with the obvious exception of pheasants), buntings are somewhat underrated. They lack...

1. Two more sparrows on the macadam ahead of me… In my early birding days, I would simply assume...

During March and April the Lazuli Buntings (Passerina amoena) begin showing up in Southern California but we don’t usually...

Pavel Pipek is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology at Charles University in Prague whose current focus...

…so here’s a post about some birds at a spring. Okay, that’s a fairly weak way to start a...

One of the most exciting aspects of bird migration in a coastal location is the potential for large numbers...

I was in Florida last week, the freakiest of the southeastern states.  Its peninsular shape, dipping so seductively into...