Richard Crossley has posed a couple of plates from his forthcoming UK and Ireland Crossley ID Guide on The Crossley ID Guide Facebook page....
Why would I call these beautiful woodpeckers the “clowns of the avian world?” Besides the facial features of the Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) appearing...
On a visit yesterday after work to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn I happened across this female Red-breasted Merganser that I initially thought was...
The post title is intentionally hyperbolic but Gawker does have the information on the plan to help the Spotted Owl – which is basically...
Just a quick post today to appreciate one of New Zealand’s most attractive birds, the Paradise Shelduck. This is brought about by a visit...
I don’t know what it is, but since I bought Dick Forsman‘s “The Raptors of Europe and Middle East” my interest in buzzards has...
Weird flocks are fun. One does not typically find a Black-crowned Night-Heron mixed in with Rock Pigeons and American Coots. I think the night-heron knows...
A thoughtful reader just pointed me towards one of the coolest posts I’ve seen in a long time, one which asks and then answers...
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