Let your mind’s eye sweep over the rich expanse of the avian family tree. Revel in its deep, gnarly divisions, its long, slender shoots....

Like many birds in these days of rampant development, overconsumption, population growth, and global warming, the Cerulean Warbler faces a host of threats to...

The Audubon’s Warbler (Dendroica coronata auduboni) is the western edition of the Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata).  The Myrtle Warbler (Dendroica coronata coronata), the eastern subspecies, and Audubon’s...

This week’s quiz was the most diabolical quiz I have written and it was answered in no time at all.  Congratulations to Sarah T...

My first exposure to the beautiful birds known as wood-warblers was on a small group of islands on the edge of the world (almost)....

Pleased pleased pleased to meet ya! Pleased pleased pleased to meet ya! Pleased pleased pleased to meet ya! The Chestnut-sided Warbler is one friendly...

1. As I have explained at length in my last 10,000 Birds blog post, wood warblers are nondescript little birds, formally known by the...

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each offers a portrait of a...