Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down...

There are few stories in ornithology I enjoy more than those of a Lazarus taxon, a species thought to...

And so it’s July, which for this North American birder means a couple of things: 1. southern Australia’s cool...

There I was (I’ve been reading Thurber) on board a boat off Baja California, reveling in cormorants (three species!),...

Year-end lists! Woo! What follows is my attempt to highlight 10 significant changes in world bird taxonomy proposed or...

Hi, folks! This is the first of what will be my monthly posts on bird taxonomy and systematics. But...