Well, maybe not forgotten, but certainly over-looked. Outside of hardcore twitchers looking for specialty birds and after speaking to thousands and thousands of birders,...

Greg Laden has a post up entitled “Global warming denialism? It ends now.”  He is essentially pointing out for the umpteenth time that any...

One of the things I do to earn a living is bird surveys, some for the federal government, some for private companies that want...

You know all those changes to the taxonomy of North American birds that we have been going on about? Yeah, they’ve been put into...

The IOC World Bird list proposed a number of unconventional bird names, most notably the Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer) and the Roughleg (Buteo...

The winner of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel is about birds and windmills.  Sure, it is...

My dad says he can call a Fish Crow from an American Crow on sight.  I’m not entirely inclined to disbelieve him, but I’ve...

Republicans in the United States House of Representatives have proposed a bill that would completely eliminate the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act.  It would...