First off, no, we will not be eating birds nor looking at birds that are about to be eaten in this quiz. Instead, we...
Though most people probably have only heard of eiders in relation to eiderdown pillows, the Common Eider is a bird well worth getting to...
The Black Scoter Melanitta americana, called the American Scoter by some and Melanitta nigra by others*, is a large seaduck rather readily identified by...
Via Kim, The Curious Birder, who posted this great video on Facebook. If this doesn’t make you laugh or at least grin, well, 10,000...
I am not too sure how difficult this quiz is but I guess we will quickly find out. Here is a single picture of...
The Yanacocha Reserve on the west slope of the Ecuadorean Andes is a stunning site to visit, not to mention a highly productive place...
This will be the last post using material from the pelagic trip I took over a week ago, but I think I might have...
On the pelagic trip off the coast of New York this past Sunday one of the highlights of the trip was seeing the small...
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