The Black Scoter Melanitta americana, called the American Scoter by some and Melanitta nigra by others*, is a large seaduck rather readily identified by...

Via Kim, The Curious Birder, who posted this great video on Facebook.  If this doesn’t make you laugh or at least grin, well, 10,000...

With many, many, many apologies to Wallace Stevens, who does not deserve what I am about to do to his most famous poem, here...

I am not too sure how difficult this quiz is but I guess we will quickly find out.  Here is a single picture of...

Of course it has been months since Patrick of The Hawk Owl’s Nest was fortunate enough to win the 10,000 Birds / Wildside Nature...

Though one would think that the recent decision by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge banning the city of Los Angeles “from subsidizing or...

Yes, the Superbowl of Birding was an absolute blast and I will be recounting in exquisite detail the day the Bloggerhead Kingbirds had in...

By the time this blog post publishes I will be in a minivan with Andrew and John heading north and east to compete in...