An interesting study is reported in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer about how young Song Sparrows learn to communicate with other Song Sparrows.  Not surprisingly, they...

The November issue of National Geographic Magazine highlights the beauty and awe of kingfishers with a story accompanied by phenomenal photos taken by Charlie...

No, this has nothing to do with my soon-to-be-born boy.  As a birder, I sometimes go far out of my way to see birds. ...

A critically endangered Indonesian crow, known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, has been rediscovered. Welcome back, Banggai Crow (Corvus unicolor)!

…though this one ended much less heroically than the “Miracle on the Hudson.”  Who would have thought that a single sparrow getting on board...

Researchers that mounted “bird cams” on Black-browed Albatross have discovered some albatrosses actively follow Killer Whales, possibly to feed on food scraps.  The research...

Rich Guthrie found a very strange hawk for upstate New York in New Baltimore, Greene County, and tells the tale on his blog. The...

Computers are being used to monitor Black Guillemot nesting colonies on Skomer Island, off the coast of Wales:  “A monitoring system is being created...