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Sooty Oystercatcher family at Kalbarri

March 18, 2018 by Clare M 3 Comments

The Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fulginosus fulginosus is present in an area along the coast of Western Australia roughly south of Carnarvon and to the...

Terminology, Trips

Pseudonymns for Costa Rican Birds

March 17, 2018 by Patrick O'Donnell No Comments

Some birds are too cool for just one name. Others have names that give us pause because they don’t seem to describe, to convey,...

Food

Glendalough Distillery: Double Barrel Irish Whiskey

March 16, 2018 by Tristan Lowery No Comments

Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day, a holiday that offers plenty of excuses for drinking, but few prospects for straying from the well-worn celebratory routines....

Birding

Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2018?

March 15, 2018 by Mike 1 Comment

The last weekend of winter (or summer, depending on your polar orientation) rarely resembles either the season ending or the one about to commence....

Birding

Computer-modelled Range Maps

by Dragan No Comments

During the final stages of the Pan-European bird-atlassing work last year, computer models of Serbian ranges for some 150 bird species were produced for...

Birding

Week Six: Doubtful Sound, South Island, New Zealand

March 14, 2018 by Tom Brown 2 Comments

We have finally broken away from Christchurch, New Zealand. That was a much harder thing to do than I would have ever though. Great...

Conservation

Bird Litigation: Spotted Owl v. Barred Owl

March 13, 2018 by Jason Crotty 5 Comments

The Northern Spotted Owl is a “threatened” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and it was famously the subject of extensive and protracted...