While birding the east slope of the Andes in Ecuador one bird that was relatively common was the Inca Jay, a bird that was...

The last month has been rather hectic. We have just completed the MYSMA (Monitoring Yellow Sea migrants in Australia) summer counts on 80 Mile...

Time to face facts… if  you haven’t bought holiday gifts yet for the birders in you life, you are out of luck. There’s simply...

It was no longer early morning as I walked back to my apartment from campus, but in Missoula right now it’s hard to tell...

Maybe you’ve seen the news, or read it on another blog but here in the UK we’ve had a drop of the white stuff....

Do you realize that you have only 9 more shopping days (and counting) until Christmas? Maybe you don’t celebrate the modern Yule holiday or...

The concept of endemism, as it pertains to ecologists (and birders are nothing if not amateur ecologists), is tossed around somewhat carelessly.  Seemingly simply...

When I was a kid, my mother used to recite a poem every time it was about to snow in Indiana: “The North Wind...