Well, it was a good run… I managed to write four weekly posts about the five days I spent in California last month. Which...

An eternity ago, when our now-adult children were young enough to watch Sesame Street, that show used to have segments about diversity with the...

All right, I’ll admit it. I’m feeling pretty good about myself right now. I came back from a Monday birding trip and told my...

Towhees are large, ground-hugging sparrows that occur only in North America. They belong to either the Pipilo or Melozone genera, or perhaps both, as...

I bought my first plant for the garden, with my own money, when I was eight years old. I have no idea how I...

I would not normally choose driving to two of my furthest regular sites back-to-back. But when April came around, and I had not yet...

Wood-Wrens, birds of the family Henicorhina, are very small wrens of Central and South America that like to live very close to the ground,...

So here are some numbers: As I write this, on March 24th, my 2022 list includes 239 species, all from within the state of...