Christmas Bird Count season is right around the corner, and if you’re anything like me you’re pretty excited about it. This year I get...

A birder’s patch is an extension of themselves. It says something about who they want to be, what they want to see regularly, how...

Let’s address, up front, the funny name. We get it. If those 16th Century Spanish sailors knew the kind of grief with which they’d...

Hey everybody. We need some more images and, particularly, blog posts on the subject of Boobies and Gannets. You might call this an augmentation...

I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the ocean on right side of North America. Not as much as many others, certainly, but...

I realize the potential for inappropriateness here is high. That the birds known by ornithologists as “Sulids” and by the general public, often accompanied...

There are some birds I have not seen in North Carolina because they are very rare. There are some birds I have not seen...

If birders say they love birds ostensibly because they can fly and we cannot, then there must be no more beloved group of birds...