You don’t need to be a birder to know that most birds above the equator fly from temperate northern climes to more tropical southern...

As long as the ivory-bill’s existence remains ambiguous, North America’s reigning woodpecker must be the Pileated Woodpecker.  This hulking beauty, black and white with...

An organization called the International Ornithological Congress (IOC) has been working since 1991 on the challenging task of creating a standard set of the...

Throughout history, innumerable adventurers, merchants, rum runners, and real estate moguls have been entranced by the inexorable pull of the sea. The entrancing tidal...

Read enough birding trip reports on this or any other site and you’re sure to hear about peeps. Birders run into peeps all the...

As far as color terms go, vermilion is a winner, reeking of exoticism and antiquity. As fine as this color feels tripping off the...

Although the title to this post may be incomprehensible (think Brylcreem,) its topic is straightforward. For birders, the word ‘dabble’ usually calls to mind...

Ah, emerald! That brilliant beryl, birthstone of May and the most valuable gemstone, by weight, in the world, shines with a green so pure...