Wouldn’t it be nice if, considering how special weekends are to most of us, we each learned something new every weekend? This weekend was...

The oldest division in the great avian tree lies between the ratites and tinamous (the paleognaths) and all other living birds (the neognaths). The...

I’m on the move this weekend. With hope, some interesting birds are as well. How about you? I’ll be in NYC but unlikely to...

Of all the billions of things that keep wildlife rehabilitators from sleeping at night, public releases are one of the big ones. Ideally, we...

The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), often touted as the most dangerous in the world due to its powerful kick when provoked, is a large,...

What is up with the birding community in the northern part of the US recently? Have we all gone completely mental? I recently heard...

When songbirds endeavor to head hundreds or thousands of miles south they are risking everything in order to find a place that they can...

There are plenty of stories about all the awful things that happen to birds, like getting covered in oil or smuggled n some dude’s...