French Frigate Shoals

The noddies form their own little subgroup within the terns, a small tropical group (how related they are to each…

I’ve spoken before about the time I was lucky enough to work on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals. Part…

I’m not quite sure why I started thinking about Sooty Terns today, but once I did couldn’t get them out…

One of the nice things about living in New Zealand and being the beat writer for that place is that…

I seem to having my own mini petrel-event here on the blog recently, I think it must be anticipation of…

Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again…

It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things. By weird things I don’t mean human weird…

No, not the terror of the schoolyard, but the Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus. The species ranges widely across the Pacific,…

The IOC World Bird list proposed a number of unconventional bird names, most notably the Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer)…

I’ve always thought there is something prehistoric about frigatebirds, as something about their shape evokes in my mind the shape…