If you have been birding for any length of time, you will almost certainly have built up a fine collection of field guides. To...

Following Duncan’s post about the Fabulous Fairy-wrens, you may be forgiven for wondering how many exceptional adjectives can be used in naming one genus of birds....

Congratulations and Ululations With an Egyptian wedding at the hotel coinciding with the Eurovision Song contest, I couldn’t resist the sub-title. Apologies to anyone...

Anna’s Hummingbird is resident in California, up through Oregon and into Washington and during the colder months will certainly be the most frequently seen hummer in the...

Carrie wrote a thought-provoking post on the perils of being named after Georg Steller, but noted that his Jays were still doing very well...

It’s that time of year again and birds are flying north in anticipation of summer romance. Not everybody will find love this season so 10,000...

This post comes by way of an assignment. After seeing an albino squirrel in a Redgannet post, The Management wrote to me suggesting that...

I was thrilled to be seing warblers so early in March, until I remembered that Townsend’s Warblers can be seen along the west coast...