Bird watchers on my latitude and perhaps yours as well have reason to look forward to this coming weekend. I can’t promise an end...

According to Birds of North America Online, the Great-tailed Grackle’s (Quiscalus mexicanus) breeding range has been expanding northward for several years. I must say...

Last week I introduced the Great Frigatebird, one of five species of man-o-war bird. I got rather carried away showing all the plumages you...

I thought I’d take you along on an early spring quick birding trip in the high Arctic. Having already blown a deadline, and disappointed...

Kenn Kaufmann, David Sibley, Pete Dunne, Corey Finger and – it seems the rest of the American birding world have it all wrong. I...

In spring, crows and ravens get jealous of all the attention that wood-warblers receive from birders.  Sometimes the jealousy overwhelms their big corvid brains...

I have yet to find a person, let alone a birder, who does not like nuthatches.  They make funny sounds, they walk upside down,...

When the word “phoebe” comes up, most people automatically think of things like the outermost of Saturn’s known satellites, the Greek Titan-goddess of the...