I often wonder what the true first colonists of Colorado had running through their minds when they first encountered the Colorado Rockies. The Native...

If we can all agree on one thing, it’s that chickadees and tits are terrific birds. Who, after all, doesn’t love a chickadee? Not...

The Beat Writers at 10,000 Birds are perhaps the single greatest conglomeration of nature writers ever to be assembled in the history of the internet.  We...

Larry has a nice series of shots of American Avocets at his usual blogging home, The Birder’s Report.

Seeing one of the world’s rarest birds is not something you’d usually think an easy task. Species with a world population in the hundreds...

Just like last year when I spent a goodly chunk of a Saturday at the end of May at Jamaica Bay I spent this...

Digiscoping is really hard. Isn’t that what everyone keeps saying? That it is almost impossible to get a good quality shot. That it is...

Here in the southeast we have three Mimids of three distinct groups all present more or less throughout the year.  The Northern Mockingbird is...