It may surprise some of you that we could get so excited about Poo Ponds here in Australia, but they are some of the...

Back in 2007 when I was doing my New York State big year I dipped on a Tufted Duck way up in the northeasternmost...

If ever a family were designed to catch the eye, it is the rollers. They perch conspicuously, perform dramatic display flights and boast the...

Not only are dead birds continuing to inexplicably rain from the skies from Arkansas to Italy, but now we’re seeing massive fish kills around...

BirdLife International has been talking in recent months about the status of Egyptian Vultures and 3 species of Vultures in Kenya, but vultures in...

Given the holiday season, I imagine that birders aren’t sitting by their computers taking difficult quizzes.  We’re out birding and partying. And returning those...

I have long wanted to see a Burrowing Owl.  They are owls, which automatically gives them a certain cachet, and they are little, which...

Have you embarked yet upon your first true birding excursion of 2011? I haven’t, and my avian inactivity is pissing me off! If you...