I recently asked ChatGPT some questions about the best birding locations in the United States and the results were decidedly mixed. I tried some...

The rapid growth of ChatGPT – an artificial intelligence chatbot – has been remarkable. (Here are primers on how it works.) But does ChatGPT...

There are more than 550 national wildlife refuges in the United States, with at least one in every state and one within an hour...

National Wildlife Refuges protect critical habitat and provide some of the best birding locations in the United States. Although birders and other users of...

In 2022, the 10,000 Birds eBird Collaborative submitted 1,837 checklists from 9 countries (Australia, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago,...

In September of 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by two powerful hurricanes: it was grazed by Irma and then clobbered by Maria, a Category...

I routinely review recent eBird checklists for several of my local patches and recently noticed a few with weather information (e.g., temperature, wind, cloud...

The American Birding Association has a relatively new Executive Director (Nikki Belmonte) and changes are coming. One proposal is modernizing the Bylaws, which govern...