QUIZ ANSWER Too many zeros.  I cannot count. You write, you edit, and you edit, and you edit.  And still something gets through that...

To each lifer, there is a story. Sometimes, the story can be very short, a mere line in the notebook without a memory attached.  Sometimes, the...

Now that the rush to populate your 2011 year list has subsided (or never truly inflamed you to begin with) birding becomes a little...

If ever a family were designed to catch the eye, it is the rollers. They perch conspicuously, perform dramatic display flights and boast the...

BirdLife International has been talking in recent months about the status of Egyptian Vultures and 3 species of Vultures in Kenya, but vultures in...

Given the holiday season, I imagine that birders aren’t sitting by their computers taking difficult quizzes.  We’re out birding and partying. And returning those...

I have long wanted to see a Burrowing Owl.  They are owls, which automatically gives them a certain cachet, and they are little, which...

Have you embarked yet upon your first true birding excursion of 2011? I haven’t, and my avian inactivity is pissing me off! If you...