Now finally, here is the third and last part of my mini-series on the taxonomic offspring of the Herring Gull, in which I’ll cover the...

The world is still turning, the blog didn’t crash, no anonymous threats against my family on social media … I guess my small series...

It has come to my attention that this blog needs more gulls. Of course this is self-evident as you can never have enough gulls...

Few things can spell out “winter birding” as poetically as the sighting of a rare northern owl that has more or less unexpectedly found its...

Since this is the season of love and harmony and all things nice, I sincerely and originally had planned to write an equally nice,...

You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as plain as day, yet only...

The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. This is not an insignificant fact...

Now that the World Big Year record has been broken by Noah Stryker, with more than three months and much of Asia and Australia...