There are penguins and then there are penguins.  This particular penguin, a Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua, is one heck of a brave (or foolhardy)...

One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC) is a proposal to split Old World and New...

This is part 2 of the Wallcreeper trilogy, the part which will feature the story of my success. You might want to read part...

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...