Following Duncan’s post about the Fabulous Fairy-wrens, you may be forgiven for wondering how many exceptional adjectives can be used in naming one genus of birds....

Continuing with my theme of common birds who were, in a sense, my companions throughout this trip, I would now like to turn my...

Riffing off my last post about places… here is a series of birds in their environments. If you’re ever caught out with a short...

At last, real summer settles in over the Northern Hemisphere. And around here, it definitely feels like summer! Are you folks south of the...

All of the sudden we have bird multi-media everywhere. On the last day of work for the regular school year, a fellow teacher gave...

It is the insensible birder who doesn’t learn something on each and every birding outing. And on a week-long trip especially devoted to birding...

Last year 10,000 Birds celebrated Wood Warbler Week, which gave me an opportunity to describe exactly what a Wood Warbler (aka Phylloscopus sibilatrix) really...

There is no raptor quite so removed from the typical confines of what a bird of prey should look and behave like. Although they share...