Birding

Mohouidae, the newest bird family

September 11, 2013 by Duncan 1 Comment
If you’re into family ticks, and into armchair ticks, well, I hope you’ve been to New Zealand, because the island just got another endemic...
Birds

Do The Splits

August 27, 2013 by Felonious Jive No Comments
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...
Birding

Why Birders Dig Darwin

February 12, 2013 by Mike 9 Comments
February 12 is Darwin Day, the birthday of the brilliant author of On The Origin of Species. This year marks the 200th anniversary of...
Birds

AOU 53rd supplement: Highlights and near misses

July 26, 2012 by David 4 Comments
The American Ornithologists’ Union published the 53rd supplement (PDF) to its North American list last week, making official many long-speculated changes and rejecting others,...
Birds

What is a Catbird?

April 8, 2012 by Corey 10 Comments
We can start first with what catbirds are not.  Catbirds are not the unfortunate result of unwise experiments with radioactivity.  Catbirds are also not...
Birds

Finding a place for the Piopio

November 9, 2011 by Duncan 1 Comment
One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...
News

No Split for Yellow-rumped Warbler

May 21, 2011 by Corey 6 Comments
Lumpers, rejoice!  Splitters and armchair tickers, cry into your beer.  The Yellow-rumped Warbler will remain the Yellow-rumped Warbler, at least for the foreseeable future,...
Birds

This is not a wood warbler!

April 26, 2011 by Dale Forbes 8 Comments
Kenn Kaufmann, David Sibley, Pete Dunne, Corey Finger and – it seems the rest of the American birding world have it all wrong. I...
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