Here’s a quick bit of fun for the trivially inclined. What do Gray Catbird, Chuck-will’s-Widow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rusty Blackbird and Red-bellied Woodpecker have in...

How many of us are really aware of the plight of the Rusty Blackbird? Sure, it’s not flashy, it’s rarely a target species for...

The concept of endemism, as it pertains to ecologists (and birders are nothing if not amateur ecologists), is tossed around somewhat carelessly.  Seemingly simply...

Let’s say you shoot me an e-mail saying you’re going to be in my neck of the woods and you’d like to do a...

I wish I could have taken the week off for the holiday, but though they don’t seem like it, Corey, Mike and Charlie are...

Things change quickly here.  It’s just the nature of the place.  For a string of islands that run nearly the length of North Carolina...

This is a big weekend for North Carolina birding.  For the 14th consecutive year the Outer Banks, the string of barrier islands that jut...

Just about every part of the world has its specialty birds, those species for which conventional birding wisdom suggests you have to go to...