One advantage of Grant’s work being unpredictable is that occasionally he has to go to Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. Last week...

It was whilst walking along the beach at Kommetjie, a coastal village near Cape Town in South Africa, that I came across a pair...

Oh to be enjoying birds by Kalmar Castle in Sweden right now… Happy Valentine’s Day! If you can’t be with the birds you love,...

I don’t mean people who steal birds. I mean birds who steal, sometimes from people. It’s a sad fact of life: sometimes birds take...

We birders are very particular about the birds that we count. We can, of course, count wild, native, species. We can count vagrant species...

Some birders like to see just birds, while others like birds, but don’t mind stopping or even taking detours to see other creatures along...

On a beautiful sunny day last week I decided it was time to check on bluebird nest boxes. I had seen several Western Bluebirds...

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking...