And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. Destined to be forever written off as ducks which...

I don’t like to wake up if it’s still dark outside – I hate it! And here I am on vacation in Greece, turning...

This is such a weird time of year at bird feeders. Most birds have finished up raising young, but a few are in the...

I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct...

I’m not an ornithologist. I don’t even play one on TV. Nevertheless, I was pleased to find myself at ornithological ground zero this past week,...

Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. For an order they are neither diverse nor disparate. Twenty two species...

I’m wondering if Best Bird of the Weekend is too restrictive a way to consider the avians we encounter from Friday to Sunday. Of...

That flamingos (Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae) are probably each others’ closest living relatives is one of the most surprising discoveries in higher-level avian systematics...