I’ve mentioned before the odd melancholy that comes from seeing extraordinary birds while knowing that the extraordinary circumstances that brought them to my local...

For many in the birding community, Miami is a destination meant only for ticking off ABA-countable exotics such as Spot-breasted Oriole or Red-whiskered Bulbul....

Not so long ago, there was a question on this blog: which is the most interesting gull in the world? In the last two...

A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, North Carolina, on the cusp of the...

I was going to have something for you this month about the dinosaur-bird thing, but I never got to it. The gallery at Analiese...

Every time I go to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I make sure to go out of my way to spend some...

A weekend in which we observe both Valentine’s Day and the Great Backyard Bird Count is one most of us need to recover from,...

We are bound to suffer. Yes, winter has done it again: here in Heidelberg, we are subjected to the painful games of Mr. Grey, trapped under...