Last weekend, I went on a quest. The adventure was sort of like a search for treasure, except that the jewels were feisty, feathered...

You might not sense it yet, but excitement is in the air. Somewhere deep in the tropics, a warm, fat, contented bird is beginning...

Two years ago, I was counting active nests of Rooks in the flat agricultural landscape north of Belgrade, Serbia. We drove for about 290...

If you’ve given up hope of ever seeing a Zapata Rail, this post is for you. And if (like me) you’ve never heard of the Zapata...

Forced inside due to various work obligations and a heckuva lot of snow (and the attending unplanned childcare responsibilities that said snow results in...

Picidae, Woodpecker, is one of those charismatic bird families that everybody gets excited about. (Unless the woodpecker is drumming a hole into your garage,...

Climate Change.  The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans.  The...

Now that we’ve gotten February out of the way, the time has come to face facts: the next mass migration is not that far...