Not an urban legend From the time I was a small child, I would flip through the pages of field guides and imagine the...

Yet another Red-tailed Hawk! Two friends were driving down a winding country road in the pouring rain, listening to the radio announcer warn that...

Like it or not, fall is falling all over the Northern Hemisphere and spring is sprung to the south. But what’s not to like...

The brilliant orange coloration and rich, haunting song of the Spot-breasted Oriole (Icterus pectoralis) makes this species one of my favorite permanent residents in...

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2012-2013. Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated...

So, I think I found a weird way to get my non birding co-workers to learn bird identification. My current job requires that I...

There are few more vexing questions in birding than the question of whether or not a bird counts. Counts for what, exactly? That’s a...

We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. Some of these capacities seem to be linked with...