It’s mid-July, which among other things means that those of us in North America are starting to check local mudflats for returning shorebird migrants...

Anyone who knows me knows my favorite kind of birding: vacation birding. Enjoy your patches and your resident breeders. I’ll take new birds in...

Since I have started to bird by kayak, it took me a lot of time to realise that paddling is not the synonym for...

Quick show of hands… how many of you in the U.S. kept a special eye out for Bald Eagles? My favorite sighting this weekend...

I completely dislike encountering crossbills. They are terribly frustrating birds. The birds themselves I love dearly, but they are a pain to come across out in...

Despite having only revealed 6 pictures on my Kylie Minogue calender so far, I may already have a candidate for Best Bird of the...

I can’t possibly remember when the Baltimore and Bullock’s Orioles were lumped into Northern Oriole. This happened in a good five years before I...

Keep your eyes to the skies for your national bird, long may it soar! Citizens of other nations may live differently, but we in...