All winter long I birded the old Edgemere Landfill, especially after the surprising Le Conte’s Sparrow just before the Queens Christmas Bird Count. The...
This Wednesday I saw my first of season Osprey soaring over the Clark Fork, not far from the nesting platform at the entrance to...
See that gross bug on the Red-tailed Tropicbird? It’s a hippoboscid, otherwise known as a flat fly. I hate them. Even the most touchy-feely,...
Crossing New Zealand’s Cook Strait (where Duncan saw albatrosses and other tasty pelagics!) Now that April Foolery is over (but not forgotten) we can...
Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after...
WILDGuides, a British publishing company, had a problem. They wanted to put together a book about The World’s Rarest Birds, but were finding that...
It’s been a busy week in bird news–some of it bad, some of it good, and some of it just plain head-scratchin’. Let’s start...
The nesting season is underway and people love to put up nest boxes. It seems an easy thing to do, you buy or make...
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