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…when it’s been renamed in the newly-released 49th Supplement to the A.O.U. Check-list of North American Birds, Seventh Edition.
The new supplement includes various and sundry switches of interest to North American listers, ornithologists, and taxonomists but probably very few others. Paramount among the changes is a new classification and sequence of genera and species adopted […]

Last month (Feb 08) I was “lucky” enough to arrive for a day’s birding with the rest of the 10,000 Birds team at the same time as the worst storm of the winter thumped into New York. Our exploits are here, here, and here, as is a photo-gallery of a fluffed-up and admirably stoic Horned […]

North America’s archetypal “little brown job” the almost omnipresent Song Sparrow occupies much the same birding-niche in the Nearctic as the Dunnock does in the UK: if you’re birding here in the UK and a bird is seen only briefly or poorly as it disappears into vegetation and it ‘just has to be a rarity‘, […]