Bird watchers have come to expect nearly endless variations of a small number of familiar forms throughout the world’s 10,000 species. For example, there...
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported yesterday that last winter, in West Nile virus-afflicted parts of the United States, American Crow counts dropped to...
While driving today, I found myself amidst a playful flock of Dark-eyed Junco. I also spotted a European Starling with an amazing throat pouch...
Since mid-October, hundreds of dead and dying fulmars have been found beached on California’s shoreline from Northern to Southern California. Necropsies done on five...
We erroneously dubbed the Northern Bobwhite we recently spotted at Bombay Hook our first gallinaceous bird. It is correct that the northern bobwhite is...
The most astonishing thing occurred a few weeks ago, and yet hardly anybody noticed. All at once, every Rock Dove in North and South...
Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow. –W. L. Dawson, The Birds...
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