and the Patriot Tortoise! Hunter at Daily Kos has finally figured out how to get the less conservation-minded segments of the American body politic...

Christine Guarino! This giveaway depended on ideas of great holiday gifts for birders, of which we received many. For some inexplicable reason, the judges...

on I Can Has Cheezburger. And to understand where lolspeak comes from, click here.

This year, for the second year in a row, Sector C of the Saratoga Christmas Bird Count was mine. Last year, Will, Tom, Bruce...

Despite what you may have heard, birders are incredibly easy to shop for. No, you may not be able to giftwrap that elusive Ivory-billed...

Long-eared Owls have long eluded me. Two winters ago Will found some roosting at Five Rivers, one of my favorite local birding spots, while...

the Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station in Toronto presents stellar comparisons of both the mainland and Greenland subspecies of Common Redpoll as well...

Once every four years, this nation and quite possibly a nervous world turns its eyes to Iowa. That politically fraught period is now upon...