I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. I pushed for Wikipedia to adopt them, and...
Collared Scops Owl – A Cat Head Eagle For a German living in China, bird names have some additional complexities. Most of the...
It is my sincere intent to have a short discussion about small group of birds, the Boobies, without any form of sophomoric humor. Those...
For many North American birders, wood warblers represent everything exciting, compelling, and immediate about birding. The desire to better understand these avian jewels impelled...
When you bird in Latin America, you quickly realize how America-centric English-language bird names are. Consider, for example, the Summer Tanager. This is an...
Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so far. He’s been working as...
Cory’s Shearwater is missing a letter. One little “e” is absent from the name and it has been driving me crazy ever since I...
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