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Be Careful What You Wish For: A Punter’s Guide to the World Birding Rally

June 3, 2014 by a Guest 7 Comments

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the...

Reviews

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

by Donna No Comments

One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good...

Birds

Breeding Plumaged Dunlin

June 2, 2014 by Corey No Comments

In winter Dunlin are bland birds, the color of sand on a gray morning. Don’t get me wrong, they are nice to see, mostly...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of May 2014)

by Mike 8 Comments

Can the best bird of your weekend be one you didn’t see? Obviously, not seeing a desired bird can place the offender in the...

Birds

Double-barred Finch

June 1, 2014 by Clare M 1 Comment

While we are away in the Southern Highlands trying to keep warm and enjoying the bird species of that area I will share with...

News

Close (and Really Old), But No Hummer

May 30, 2014 by Meredith Mann 1 Comment

It eats like a hummingbird and is tiny like a hummingbird, but the oldest pollinating bird was not a hummingbird. Pumiliornis tessellatus was a now-extinct...

Trips

Magical Canastra: A Piece of Brazil’s Forgotten Grasslands

by Carlos 4 Comments

Many people have heard of the immense Amazon Rainforest with its astonishing biodiversity. Some people might have heard of the highly endangered Atlantic Rainforest...