This week brings the quandary of whether suspect provenance should disqualify a bird from my life-list. The bird in question is possibly the best...

Richard Koeppel, holder of one of the world’s most extensive life lists and protagonist of To See Every Bird on Earth (my review here),...

There are few more vexing questions in birding than the question of whether or not a bird counts. Counts for what, exactly? That’s a...

I’ve been birding for nearly 2/3 of my life and, until this past weekend, I’d never even sniffed a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.  For a long...

I have long wanted to see a Burrowing Owl.  They are owls, which automatically gives them a certain cachet, and they are little, which...

Bohemian Waxwing. Just the name makes me feel all… Jack Kerouacky. It’s a life bird that would make me get “On the Road.” Bohemian...

Summer really is quiet. I loved Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, the biography of Phoebe Snetsinger written by...

While we love blathering on about life list around here, one that I wrote about last week was all about someone else’s life birds...