One of the best things about our annual Lassen Park campout is that we get to see several species of birds that are rarely,...

Black Woodpeckers are usually easy to find in Germany. Yes, some birders may frown at this statement. At least one birder will now likely...

Let us no more speak of this week’s  extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey. Instead, we’ve got other...

I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew over the road and...

Unlike cavity nesting ducklings which hatch precocial (eyes open, covered with down and ready to go), most cavity nesting birds hatch altricial. They are...

My nestling Red-shafted Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) are around two weeks old now and the adults are still entering the nestbox to feed them....

My bird feeding array has been set up outside the window of my study. I can gaze from here and contemplate the important things...

As some of you may know, I have been monitoring about 35 nest boxes on three Bluebird Trails going on seven years now. Over the...