The California Quail (Callipepla californica) is the California state bird, inhabiting scrub, broken chaparral and woodland edges primarily in California, Oregon, Washington and Baja California. They are...
When it comes down to it New Zealand is all about islands. The whole place itself is an island, but the main islands are...
Walter Kitundu of Bird Light Wind has an amazing four–part photographic series of the birds of Tanzania. And now he working on the animals,...
Birdspot shirts for sale! Get your Birdspot shirts! I ordered one (with a hawk calling a hawkwatcher a loser). If you don’t want a...
One of the coolest things I did in Thailand (we were just on holiday there), and undoubtedly one of the coolest things I have...
What kid can resist the siren song of bunny rabbits frolicking in the grass? No kid that I would want to pass the day...
Yeah, I certainly won’t be shedding any tears for now ex-bird breeder LaSandra Walter, who had her birds taken from her as part of...
I love puffins. Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of...
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