A new research project using Zebra Finches in semi-wild conditions indicates that for some bird populations a certain aspect of climate change may have...

Most birders in the northern hemisphere are familiar with the Marsh Hawk, an expected denizen of marshes, tundra, and grasslands across a huge swathe of...

Every week, the winds carry the unexpected hither and yon. Were you hither? Were you yon? If so, we’d love to hear what you...

You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as plain as day, yet only...

Wood Sandpipers-Tringa glareola are a shorebird species that are found on inland fresh water rather than along the coast. At our local ephemeral lakes the...

If a bird were to sing “What I Did for Love,” from A Chorus Line, it wouldn’t warble about devoting itself to theater and dance. Although...

I started birding in what must have been 1978. At the time, I didn’t really take note of the year because I was seven....

As my faithful readers know, I have a long-standing fascination with helping (and, at times, inadvertently confusing) interested non-birders – those who are entering...