The recent American Ornithological Union (AOU) decisions to split Sage Sparrow (RIP) into Sagebrush Sparrow and Bell’s Sparrow has the...

Blue-gray Tanager is a bird reasonable to expect in the U.S. as a vagrant someday…they are common in many...

Splits, splits, splits. Birders, for the most part, love them. While many of us anxiously await the AOU’s decisions...

Today we take a brief reprieve from birder commentary to talk actual birds, specifically those of Santa Cruz Island,...

A Dusky Grouse scurries across the road in Grand Teton National Park, WY. I was reading Carrie’s post last...

Mountain Plover and many other grassland birds have populations in steep decline. Private property holders with prairie/agricultural land can...

Black-thighed Grosbeak. On a recent Costa Rica trip, one of these was called out while an epic mixed flock...

Tropical Kingbird is likely to be one of the last birds I see in 2012 and first I see in...