Mating systems and parental care patterns can be odd among birds. Male-female role reversal, happens in some familiar birds, but is rare. Less than...

The Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia) is North America’s smallest swallow. It can be distinguish from the Northern Rough-winged Swallow by its dark breast band...

Treeswifts are funny little things. They’re swifts, only they aren’t, actually. When they were first described they were thought to be a link between...

The recent hubbub in the northeastern United States in terms of rare birds has been all about the Whiskered Tern at Cape May, the...

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated...

Back in January, when I was enjoying my attendance at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival down in Titusville, Florida, I had an...

James Russell Lowell famously wondered, “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days…” Of course, he...

While we have been living in Palmerston in the Northern Territory I do miss our garden at home in Broome and all of our...