Another year, another year list. I have to confess to an increasing ambivalence about year lists. On the whole I kind of enjoy the...

As I am a native of Maine, it is only fitting that my first state bird post is on the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)....

It sure looks like it! Gustave Axelson has a nice breakdown of a recent genetic analysis of redpolls on Cornell’s All About Birds Blog:...

Nearly everywhere in the world, birds are on the wing, not just traveling to and from their daily haunts but returning to their ancestral...

At home in Broome we are often awoken by Blue-winged Kookaburras and their insane chattering, but here in Melbourne the Kookaburra family is represented...

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of the year today in the same place as last year – Rockaway Community Park in southern...

This week I am appealing for bird feeding recipes that include peanut butter. As part of an art installation, I needed a couple of...

Once spring has tentatively sprung in the northern half of the world, spring break must inevitably follow. So many of you are rushing to...