Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. For an order they are neither diverse...

I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field,...

I write a lot about climate change on my other blog, and so I don’t really feel a strong...

It is hard to think of too many downsides to birds, but there are some and here I’d like...

Years ago it was pointed out by somebody, probably Tinbergen or Lack or Wynn-Edwards or one of the other...

In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that...

The number of people who hunt waterfowl in the US has declined since the mid 1990s. This has resulted...

Usually, it’s “Bird eating fish” but here we have a case of a “Bird-eating fish.” The Wels Catfish, Silurus...