Here’s a quick bit of fun for the trivially inclined. What do Gray Catbird, Chuck-will’s-Widow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rusty Blackbird and Red-bellied Woodpecker have in...

This is the last part of my Wallcreeper trilogy in which I will tell the tale of another day, the day I set out...

I read a news report on Tuesday that said 70% of the contiguous United States had snow cover.  Up in Minnesota, it’s a whole...

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...