I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. I pushed for...

Collared Scops Owl – A Cat Head Eagle   For a German living in China, bird names have some...

It is my sincere intent to have a short discussion about small group of birds, the Boobies, without any...

For many North American birders, wood warblers represent everything exciting, compelling, and immediate about birding. The desire to better...

When you bird in Latin America, you quickly realize how America-centric English-language bird names are. Consider, for example, the...

Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so...

Cory’s Shearwater is missing a letter. One little “e” is absent from the name and it has been driving...

If you’re not finding mid-June birding all that exciting, you’re definitely not alone. Worry not, though, because you’ll find...