Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change. The task of wrestling this topic down into...

The Little Blue Heron, like most (all?) herons and egrets, flies with its neck bent and its head drawn in close to the body so...

Since watching robo-whimbrels took a sudden morbid turn, let’s follow migrating loons! The U.S. Geological Survey Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) is tracking the...

All of us who identify ourselves as birders are thrillingly familiar with the sense of discovery, accomplishment, and even adventure that goes hand in...

Penguins. The birds that wear tuxedos and star in major motion pictures. People call them “flightless birds” but they do in fact fly; They...

By the time you read this post I will still be in New York but I’ll be looking forward to leaving for the 2011...

Disturbing?  Or just neat?  However you look at it the fact is that released cage birds in Australia have been rejoining wild flocks of their...

Long before I moved in New Zealand, or visited or even knew much about the wildlife here, way back then I knew about the...