It is very easy to see pipits. Pipits prefer open terrain, spend their time in clear view and are...

Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal, Three-wattled Bellbird, Orange-collared Manakin, fancy hummingbirds , tanagers,...

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...

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

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

One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC) is a proposal to...

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