Be warned, The Atlas of Birds is not a map book, though it does contain maps, lovely orange and purple and green bird distribution...

Seagull Steve clued me in to this awesome page of British birding slang.

Well, no, but does anyone out there have a good idea of how to deal with situations like these? For example, there is a...

December owns an outsize reputation among months due to its status as the Northern Hemisphere’s gateway to winter, though hosting Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia,...

It’s “feasible.”

The word “tanager” conjures certain images for most of us birder types. Maybe words like “colorful,” “beautiful,” “fruit,” and “tree.” But the tanager brand...

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) photos by Larry Jordan (click to enlarge) The Common Merganser (Mergus merganser americanus) or Goosander (Mergus merganser merganser) as it’s known in Europe, is a...

Shore Plovers, a critically endangered species from New Zealand, have been reintroduced to several small islands off of New Zealand that were cleared of...