The recent American Ornithological Union (AOU) decisions to split Sage Sparrow (RIP) into Sagebrush Sparrow and Bell’s Sparrow has the Birdosphere buzzing on everything from...

So was that really summer? I know that we in the Northern Hemisphere technically have almost another month of summer, but as August ends,...

Wouldn’t you love to watch the sun go down at Cristalino Jungle Lodge in Brazil? Weekends come and weekends go. Don’t let this one pass...

I’m currently reading Roger Real Drouin’s No Other Way for a future review on this site. The novel centers on a quest to find...

This is such a weird time of year at bird feeders. Most birds have finished up raising young, but a few are in the...

I’m wondering if Best Bird of the Weekend is too restrictive a way to consider the avians we encounter from Friday to Sunday. Of...

That flamingos (Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae) are probably each others’ closest living relatives is one of the most surprising discoveries in higher-level avian systematics...

Around Broome we have several members of the Kingfisher family, with the most common being the Sacred Kingfisher and the Red-backed Kingfisher. They are...