For many birders a highlight of birding the southeastern United States, maybe even the definitive birding experience of the region, is taking in the...

European Storks are majestic, they’re graceful and stately and all of the positively connotated adjectives that are applied to birds to which humans have...

My dad says he can call a Fish Crow from an American Crow on sight.  I’m not entirely inclined to disbelieve him, but I’ve...

Harper Lee famously wrote that it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.  Because they don’t do nothing but sing for us all day long,...

From the perspective of the shore, the ocean looks featureless.  A pancake flat expanse of blue and green and blue-green (with some green-blue thrown...

If the state of North Carolina is known for one thing in the greater birding world, it’s what goes on off of its central...

Here in the southeast we have three Mimids of three distinct groups all present more or less throughout the year.  The Northern Mockingbird is...

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each offers a portrait of a...