The Greater Prairie Chicken, once common throughout North America, has undergone rapid population decline, mostly due to habitat loss. The tallgrass prairie that once...

The Seattle Seahawks are, of course, a professional (American) football team, known as much for the inability to win it all as for anything...

Summer thankfully persists in the Northern Hemisphere, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the birding remains dull. Shorebirds are on the march and, all too...

I think I missed my slot; did I miss my slot? Was anyone worried, anyone think maybe I’d been caught up in that little...

Clark’s Nutcracker, sometimes called the Crow Woodpecker, will always be paired with Lewis’s Woodpecker, the woodpecker that acts like a crow, both because of...

A type of birding experience that I greatly enjoy is one of those moments where I’ve come across a simply huge number of birds....

Where has everyone gone? The web seems pretty dead this week, particularly along the birding and nature beat. Has summer lassitude set in, or...

Here’s a prediction: Parrots, falcons, and seriemas are on their way to new positions in your checklists and, eventually, field guides. Oh yes, change...