rails

On 26 January 2012, my first full day in Florida for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I had…

The endangered subspecies of the Clapper Rail known as the California Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus) has been found breeding…

If studying insects would lead you to suppose that God had an “an inordinate fondness for beetles”, studying the pre-human…

Everyone knows what a jinx bird is.  It is a bird that dodges you like sanity does Michele Bachmann.  No…

One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC) is a proposal to split…

Lema Ranch is one of Northern California’s birding hotspots. It is located in Shasta County, in the northern most part…

When Shane Blodgett and I made plans to bird for most of a recent day our main objectives were to…

When I got home from birding Jamaica Bay this morning I was greeted by an odd email off the ebirdsNYC…

So, if you aren’t already sick of the birds of the Marine Nature Study Area after over imbibing on Black…

The weekend began for me with a Friday night for the ages, if I could only remember it. Daisy, her…