The Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) and the Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) were considered different forms of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) until 1983 when...
More than a few groups of birds around the world have been given names with wren in it, almost as if the sight of...
I was just browsing through my iPhoto library and I realised that I have almost no photos of the Mute Swan (Cygnus olor). In...
Limpkins are Apple Snail specialists. That is, they eat snails of the genus Pomacea to the exclusion of all else, provided the snails are...
By the time you read this blog post I will hopefully have checked my first lifer of the day off and be on to...
I am having a wonderful time at the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Instead of going into the gory details at...
Some photographers seem a bit too anxious to get the perfect lighting for all their photos and go to great extents bothering the birds...
One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving...
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