You have to love June, when birding stops well before the month itself. Is anyone willing to struggle out...

I’d learned a lot since the last time I sat in a meeting room even close to this fancy....

The Cape May Warbler is a boldly patterned, voracious predator. Primarily yellow below, with black racing stripes, it prowls through...

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...