The AOU’s 54th supplement to its North American bird checklist will be out next month. Based on the proposals submitted to date, here are...

Whilst we were busy birding in Southern and Western Queensland earlier this year avoiding rain it was blowing a gale in Broome. At the...

Keep your eyes to the skies, but don’t forget to look out below… excellent advice when visiting Australia’s Blue Mountains! As if fatherhood isn’t...

Chasing the mystery elaenia which showed up in Chicago in 2012—where my girls at? That’s the question asked by this very detailed and thoughtful...

        There’s an apartment building just across the alley from mine. It’s a real…”fixer upper” to say the least. It’s been...

The Grey-headed Robin of Australia is not a robin as Americans would know one (thinking, inexplicably, that a thrush is a robin), nor is...

How are seasons like species? In both instances, we can have trouble telling where one ends and the other begins. We’re in the midst...

The main flow of the North American wood warbler migration has passed me by again and I have had to visit the far reaches...