Just the other day, a middle-aged lady approached me in the supermarket, near the organic vegetable section. “Aren’t you that beat writer on 10000birds?...

Well folks, it’s been a while. And whether the return is a permanent one or not remains to be seen as those factors sealing...

On April 16, 2021, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), had a “Community Congress on English Bird Names” to...

The birding world has been debating whether honorific common bird names (e.g., Clark’s Nutcracker or Baird’s Sandpiper) should be changed. The broad arguments are...

By the time this post is published, I will be on a short trip to Spain, though not principally for birding purposes. So I...

Collared Scops Owl – A Cat Head Eagle   For a German living in China, bird names have some additional complexities. Most of the...

Was it Shakespeare who asserted that a bird by any other name would sing as sweet? Perhaps he didn’t write those exact words, but...