life list

This week brings the quandary of whether suspect provenance should disqualify a bird from my life-list. The bird in question…

Richard Koeppel, holder of one of the world’s most extensive life lists and protagonist of To See Every Bird on…

There are few more vexing questions in birding than the question of whether or not a bird counts. Counts for…

I’ve been birding for nearly 2/3 of my life and, until this past weekend, I’d never even sniffed a Yellow-bellied…

I have long wanted to see a Burrowing Owl.  They are owls, which automatically gives them a certain cachet, and…

Bohemian Waxwing. Just the name makes me feel all… Jack Kerouacky. It’s a life bird that would make me get…

Summer really is quiet. I loved Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, the biography of…

While we love blathering on about life list around here, one that I wrote about last week was all about…

I’ve finally done it!  More than a year and a half since my first foray into international birding I finally…

Though my ABA life list is up to 435 birds and my international list somewhat north of that (I’ve really…