I recently saw and photographed what appears to be a Baikal Wagtail (Motacilla alba-or-not baicalensis) in Germany. If I...

Now finally, here is the third and last part of my mini-series on the taxonomic offspring of the Herring...

The world is still turning, the blog didn’t crash, no anonymous threats against my family on social media …...

It has come to my attention that this blog needs more gulls. Of course this is self-evident as you...

Few things can spell out “winter birding” as poetically as the sighting of a rare northern owl that has more...

Since this is the season of love and harmony and all things nice, I sincerely and originally had planned...

You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as...

The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. This...