Just the other day, a middle-aged lady approached me in the supermarket, near the organic vegetable section. “Aren’t you...

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

On April 16, 2021, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), had a “Community Congress...

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

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

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

Was it Shakespeare who asserted that a bird by any other name would sing as sweet? Perhaps he didn’t...