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Birds

How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

January 16, 2020 by Dragan No Comments

The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely...

Birds

Male Vermilion Flycatchers Are Amazing

January 13, 2020 by Corey 2 Comments

Sure, I had heard the hype. Vermilion Flycatchers are amazing! Vermilion Flycatchers are gorgeous! Vermilion Flycatchers make Scarlet Tanagers look like doodoo! But, sadly,...

Birds

My Ten Best Birds of 2019

December 31, 2019 by Corey 2 Comments

This last year of the twenty-teens was a monumental birding year for me. I saw 863 species of birds, bringing my life list to...

Birds, Reviews

Murder Most Wildfowl: A Review of “A Dance of Cranes” by Steve Burrows

December 22, 2019 by Mark No Comments

Since the last notice of him on this blogsite (in June 2018), Steve Burrows has published two more novels in his terrific “Birder Murder”...

Birding, Birds, Food, Reviews

Stolpman Vineyards: Para Maria de los Tecolotes (2017)

December 13, 2019 by Tristan Lowery No Comments

Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. Some counters are unfailingly resolute in their dedication to this thankless graveyard shift of the...

Birds

A Western Kingbird at Jones Beach

November 4, 2019 by Corey 1 Comment

This past Saturday morning I was out at Jones Beach birding all morning with my good friends Seth and Mary, who had dragged me,...

Birding, Birds, Food, Reviews

Bellwoods Brewery: Bring Out Your Dead (2018)

November 1, 2019 by Tristan Lowery No Comments

I was really looking forward to this week’s installment of Birds and Booze. Last night was Hallowe’en, making tomorrow – in some Christian traditions...