Australia has a lot of birds. The “Working List of Australian Birds, v.4,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016 birds, but that includes subspecies...
In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., a rural area in the eastern-central part of the state. Although Henslow’s had...
Tim Birkhead loves to tell stories. They may be about bird eggs (The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg,...
Do Brown-headed Cowbirds really smell like freshly baked sugar cookies? Do Dark-eyed Juncos really smell like leaves and dirt or “ferns and Celestial Seasonings’...
In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. It was a one-story square building, four sides...
The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition...
High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. A very specific type of weather–north winds, a cold front, rain. It stops those...
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