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...

Some updates from the comments sections! On the Limpkin, the ever-sagicious Rick Wright points out that the ‘gait’ explanation may well be a folk...

Today’s Guest Blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. in Antigo, WI: Most of us have our own idea...

The Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is run by the National Audubon Society in partnership with Bird Studies Canada, the North American Breeding Bird...

I saw my first real Greater Roadrunner on a cold winter day in the Southwest. Walking along a dirt track next to a prairie,...

A recent comment thread on Facebook about absurdly high counts of some species in the eBird database got me curious. Who has seen the...

Since we returned from Melbourne in May we have spent a lot of time in remote parts of northern Australia enjoying the bird-life. In...