Winter is one of my favorite times to bird, mainly due to the proliferation of shorebirds that stalk their prey on the sandy beaches...
Tradeoffs in behavior, and plasticity We assume natural selection has shaped birds to avoid predators. Noticing predators, reacting to them perhaps with an alarm...
By the second weekend of December, you may not know what you’re getting for the holidays, but you probably know which Christmas Bird Counts...
Marble Bar is situated in the Pilbara area of Western Australia and is the largest shire in the world. Marble Bar has some interesting...
Discussing winter birding seems incongruous when we’re experiencing spring weather here in western NY. Better to just enjoy the glorious warmth and wait a...
The title of warmest year on record currently belongs to 2014, but the crown may pass in just a few weeks to the present...
The Australian Painted Snipe–Rostratula australis is one of the hardest shorebirds/waders to find in Australia and very little is known about them at all....
It’s beginning to look a lot like… winter birding season in the Northern Hemisphere. Some other seasonal stuff may be coming up too, but...
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