A birder’s travels and travails can be tricky, sometimes even hazardous, because we navigate according to two powerful, but opposing stars: ENDEMIC and EXTRALIMITAL....

In considering this grand dialogue so many of us have deigned to participate in, by which I of course mean blogging, I believe it’s...

Bird bloggers watch birds. We blog birds. We photograph birds. We write about birds. We study birds. We discuss birds. We feed birds. We...

Ah, grace… Amazing, isn’t it, and sweet sounding too! Grace, defined as elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action, is a quality...

A greenbelt, as a product of land use policy, is a magnificent thing (as a fashion accessory, usually not so much.) Greenbelts are undeveloped...

In the quartet of classical elements – earth, air, fire, and water – one would think Class Aves would be easy to classify. After...

Fun fact of the day: Neurophilosophy is an interdisciplinary study that lies at the juncture of neuroscience and philosophy. It’s true. Furthermore, neurophilosophical inquiry...

(I first used this introduction last January when Aydin of Snail’s Tales presented a perfectly poetic I and the Bird #15. Almost exactly one...