Happy New Year! Did you ring in 2011 with style? More important, did you get your year’s birding off to auspicious start? Alas, for...

The noisiest bird to visit our garden any time of year is the Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis and the family group is usually eight...

I was exploring the marvelous Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach, California, and was, as always when I visit this jewel of a...

On this final day of 2010 it is time to share your Best Birds of the Year, well, your Best Birds of the Year...

We’ve almost done it, friends… almost made it through another year! And while dire situations and snowpocalypses may afflict humanity across the globe, the...

How many of us are really aware of the plight of the Rusty Blackbird? Sure, it’s not flashy, it’s rarely a target species for...

So much of the US is getting dumped on with snow.  At first it seemed like a nice holiday treat until you realize that...

Christmas and my current trip north means that I’ll be taking a break from my six-part examination of New Zealand extinctions this week. Instead...