Until today the only Painted Buntings I had ever seen were in Honduras. And, despite their absurdly gaudy appearance,...

Beauty can be found in the most commonplace. I was struck the other day by the perfect patterns created...

My travels have taken me all over the United States including coastal sites where some of the most interesting...

I know of no other day of the year when a larger percentage of Americans are likely to be...

Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) photos by Larry Jordan Shorebirds. Why are they seemingly so difficult to identify? One obvious reason...

As introductions to tropical Pacific birding go, you could do a lot worse than Fiji. Their combination of isolation...

And how cool is it that there is now evidence that dinosaurs ate birds?

The results of the Swarovski Optik Digiscoper of the Year 2011 have just been published and once again, they...