Who doesn’t love a macaw? Big, bold, beautiful parrots full of character and charm, macaws make us long for...

The Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibunus, is similar in many ways to Bonaparte’s Gull, Larus philadelphia of North America. They...

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is what oceanographers call ultraoligotrophic, meaning that it has low primary productivity. Basically there just...

I’ve been to a lot of birding festivals—sometimes as a speaker, sometimes as a trip leader, and sometimes just...

The official start of summer hasn’t yet arrived, but those of you struggling through record-setting spikes in temperature may...

When the American Ornithologists’ Union publishes its annual North American checklist update next month, many birders will be disappointed...

Yellow-headed Blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) are robin-sized blackbirds found in prairie and mountain meadow wetlands of the western and central...

If studying insects would lead you to suppose that God had an “an inordinate fondness for beetles”, studying the...