Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down...

Hummingbirds are one of the joys of wintertime birding here in Louisiana. My friend Erik Johnson and I recently...

The air was thick and clammy, and mosquitoes were biting along Louisiana’s Mermentau River last Thursday morning, the final...

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

Tubenose. No, it’s not part of a Shakespearean insult. Tubenoses are seabirds that belong to an order called Procellariiformes...

We humans have a very deep and powerful urge to assemble individual data points into some sort of larger...

Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas, noting a need for further research...

Here’s a prediction: Parrots, falcons, and seriemas are on their way to new positions in your checklists and, eventually,...