Dragging salutations for the New Year half way through January may be stretching the point just a little too far, but I was otherwise...

I have been working in the avian world for 25 years, but last summer I was out-birded by a 14-year-old girl. Actually, I was...

Wow, those are a lot of Oriental Pratincoles! How is your 2015 year list looking so far? If you’re around 300 species, you’ve been keeping...

No doubt that one of the fun parts of birding is being able to identify birds in the field. Getting to a point where...

The “Blue Goose” is the dark morph of the Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens). Click on photos for full sized images. Color morphs are controlled...

When you ask someone who is into gulls for help identifying a specific bird the conversation can get horribly dull amazingly quickly. Molt, windows,...

The month of January has so much to offer, from tropical migrants in the equatorial zones to visitors from the poles in our more...

We have just had a few rather wet days and it is just what the land needed. The ideal rain comes from a tropical...