It is very easy to see pipits. Pipits prefer open terrain, spend their time in clear view and are roughly the size of a...

Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal, Three-wattled Bellbird, Orange-collared Manakin, fancy hummingbirds , tanagers, and literally hundreds of other...

Hello my birding sons and daughters. Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present, and the history in between. A large portion of...

The recent American Ornithological Union (AOU) decisions to split Sage Sparrow (RIP) into Sagebrush Sparrow and Bell’s Sparrow has the Birdosphere buzzing on everything from...

Splits, splits, splits. Birders, for the most part, love them. While many of us anxiously await the AOU’s decisions on some recently proposed splits...

Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down along limbs. The family has...

One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC) is a proposal to split Old World and New...

Year-end lists! Woo! What follows is my attempt to highlight 10 significant changes in world bird taxonomy proposed or formalized in 2010. As you...