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Steller’s Jay Cyanocitta stelleri
California, various dates

The distinctive Steller’s Jay typically lives in flocks of greater than 10 individuals and occurs in coniferous and mixed woodland over virtually the whole of the western side of North America from Alaska in the north to Central America in the far south and east to south-western Texas, completely replacing [...]

On Saturday as part of a good half-day’s birding I explored Jamaica Bay hoping to find some birds that have come in with the warm weather that I could count for my Anti-Global Warming Big Year. I didn’t find too much that I haven’t already seen this year, in fact, a Little Blue Heron [...]

Corey’s recent posts from Europe mentioned the native Red Squirrel and the problems it’s facing from the introduced and more aggressive North American Grey Squirrel. Introduced species are rarely beneficial (eg see Mike’s post on the Common Myna): ecosystems are complex things and build up over thousands of years, and whilst we over here would [...]

Pied Crow Corvus albus
Nairobi, Kenya. June 2005 and November 2006

The Pied Crow is Africa’s most widespread corvid, occuring from Sub-Saharan Africa down to the Cape of Good Hope (though it’s absent from the tropical rainforest regions) and also the islands of Madagascar, the Comoros, Aldabra, Zanzibar, Pemba and Fernando Po. It inhabits mainly open country [...]

Nairobi, Kenya, June 2005

It’s almost six months to the day since I started blogging. It’s quite amazing really how fast time has flown by. Not just time: I’ve already flown to North America seven or eight times times, to the Middle East five times, to India, Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong twice, and to Africa three [...]

 
Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India
08 April 2005

The island city of Mumbai lies off the west coast of India just south of the tropic of Cancer. Because of its harbour, a wide bay between the city and the mainland, facing Africa and East
Asia, Mumbai has been a natural shipping and trading center through all of its [...]

The family of birds known as corvids is well known for what is kindly referred to as character. Put bluntly, these birds, which include crows, ravens, magpies, and jays, can be real jerks. They harass others with their raucous cries. They loot bird feeders and, even worse, bird’s nests. Bullies and thieves pure and [...]