Some time ago, I was doing research of waterbird migrations with a friend of mine, a young ornithologist currently...

William L. Dawson was an unparalleled wordsmith when it came to birds. Many have sung songs of adulation and...

Hello my birding sons and daughters. Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present, and the history in...

The recent American Ornithological Union (AOU) decisions to split Sage Sparrow (RIP) into Sagebrush Sparrow and Bell’s Sparrow has the...

Blue-gray Tanager is a bird reasonable to expect in the U.S. as a vagrant someday…they are common in many...

Splits, splits, splits. Birders, for the most part, love them. While many of us anxiously await the AOU’s decisions...

Today we take a brief reprieve from birder commentary to talk actual birds, specifically those of Santa Cruz Island,...

A Dusky Grouse scurries across the road in Grand Teton National Park, WY. I was reading Carrie’s post last...