So as some folks may have noticed, it seems that the centenniel of the Passenger Pigeon’s extinction is garnering a bit of press. Good,...

There is no excuse for putting a banner photo like this on a renowned birding site. It’s just that when summer is over and...

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. The species that manage to colonize these islands...

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each offers a portrait of a...

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an...

The White-winged guan (Penelope albipennis) was thought to be extinct for 100 years. The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish...

In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a target species list I...

I’ve decided to get into the bird tour business. I mean, how hard could it be? Get up early, point at lots of birds,...