House Finches are common enough birds at most bird feeding stations. Below is how we are accustomed to seeing the males at the feeder:...

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding:...

Be honest. Which winter sporting event captured your attention more this weekend: The Olympics or the Great Backyard Bird Count? The GBBC appears to...

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...