North Americans may find this hard to believe, but the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is beloved around the world yet slowly declining throughout the...

In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example...

After a weekend that felt far more like a last blast of winter than a runway to spring, I’m ready for an equinox and...

The first batch of proposals for the 2013 American Ornithologists’ Union North American checklist supplement has hit the ‘tubes. Let’s take a look at...

The Bee-eaters are a beautifully coloured Old World family of birds that sit out on prominent perches watching for insects to prey upon. This Green...

Lilac skies over Tecuitata, one of the most productive coffee plantations in the area of San Blas, Mexico (According to James Currie, the birding in...

Bushtits (Psaltriparus minimus) are the only New World representative of the long-tailed tits (Aegithalidae) and they are primarily limited to the western parts of...

When I first visited New Zealand, back in 2000, the Stichbird was just a rare species of honeyeater (Meliphagidae), one of three representatives of...