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Top 10-plus Pipits

February 6, 2025 by Editor 3 Comments
It is very easy to see pipits. Pipits prefer open terrain, spend their time in...
Conservation

A Guide to Some Possible Bird Species Splits in Costa Rica

March 21, 2015 by Patrick O'Donnell 4 Comments
Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal, Three-wattled Bellbird, Orange-collared Manakin,...
Birding

15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

October 22, 2013 by Felonious Jive 12 Comments
Hello my birding sons and daughters. Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present,...
Birding

Do The Splits

August 27, 2013 by Felonious Jive No Comments
The recent American Ornithological Union (AOU) decisions to split Sage Sparrow (RIP) into Sagebrush Sparrow and...
Birding

Say Hello To…Pacific Fulmar?

May 28, 2013 by Felonious Jive 1 Comment
Splits, splits, splits. Birders, for the most part, love them. While many of us anxiously...
Birding

White-breasted Nuthatch is four species, study says

April 12, 2012 by David 13 Comments
Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down...
Birding

Moorhen Mania: The splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen

January 11, 2011 by David 30 Comments
One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC)...
Birding

2010’s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics

December 12, 2010 by David 8 Comments
Year-end lists! Woo! What follows is my attempt to highlight 10 significant changes in world...
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