Treeswifts are funny little things. They’re swifts, only they aren’t, actually. When they were first described they were thought to be a link between...

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated...

Back in January, when I was enjoying my attendance at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival down in Titusville, Florida, I had an...

James Russell Lowell famously wondered, “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days…” Of course, he...

What is it about Owls that casts such a spell over folk? If there is one order of birds that is guaranteed to draw involuntary gasps...

September is a ‘tweener month, straddling two seasons and belonging entirely to neither. Helen Hunt Jackson describes this delectable transition in a poem entitled, what else, September:...

Birds fascinate us for many reasons. Flight, beauty, the glimpse into the world of dinosaurs,  to mention but a few of those reasons. The...

September migration is a fine time to appreciate birds on the wing, so fine that many of you may have missed many of our Extinction...