Sad news out of Louisiana.  Maybe we shouldn’t encourage people to shoot any cranes? Hat-tip to Julie.

I may have to buy a smartphone: For more than a year, Berres (and his graduate students, of course) have been testing and improving...

The Tennessee Warbler is a poster child for the boreal forests of Canada and the far northern United States.  Its population actually fluctuates in...

blaxploitation (noun) – the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies) birdersploitation (noun) – the exploitation of birders (especially...

New Zealand has turned many of its offshore islands into introduced-predator-free sanctuaries for native wildlife but Stoats, also known as Ermine or Short-Tailed Weasel,...

Every spring the wood-warblers come north bedecked in breeding finery and every autumn they head back south again in more muted colors. The trickle...

Who knew? Hat-tip to Finger on the Shutter aka my mom.

On 6 October I came across an American Redstart in Edgewater, New Jersey, that seemed perfectly normal at first, when I was only viewing...