I recently accepted a summer job working as a tour guide, mostly for birders, on St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs!  This will be an amazing ...

Mexican Duck, Anas ( platyrhynchos ) diazi , at First Dam, Logan, Utah.  Copyright Ryan P. O'Donnell.   If you follow Utah Birdtalk/...

Like Red Crossbills and Pine Grosbeaks, Evening Grosbeaks ( Coccothraustes vespertinus ) have been described as having distinct call types...

One of the things that I love about birding is that the challenges never stop coming; there's always more to learn.  Once a birder has a...

Yesterday was Logan's Christmas Bird Count, the fifty-somethingth one day a year when 60 or so volunteers gather with the goal of a comp...

Koa-Ohia forest at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, one of the best places for seeing native forest birds on the island of Hawaii....

Bogota Sunangel, a hummingbird that was last seen alive over 100 years ago.  Painting by John Fjeldsa from The Auk v. 110, issue 1. Bird...

I previously posted about the introduced game birds of Hawaii. Those species were all introduced for hunting opportunities (for food or fo...