Birds on the brain

The new year has scarcely begun and I have already seen what will almost certainly be in my top ten birds of 2011. Like a feathered mouse, ...

Perhaps this is a bit of a cliche... ...but I just have to savor 2010 as it was such a great year bird-wise. I saw 935 bird species 644 o...

I signed up to help out with four Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) in North Carolina this year: Durham, Chapel Hill, Bodie/Pea Island and Mattam...

Can you guess what it might be? We will get to that later... First, another congratulations to Harry Legrand, who nailed last week's ...

Hopefully your answer was to go birding anyway. And depending on your region and/or religion this question may be completely irrelevant. ...

First off, a big congratulations to Harry Legrand for correctly identifying the nest as belonging to a tinamou...impressive! He was off wi...

I went out this morning to Falls Lake with Robert Meehan, the man who discovered the Connecticut Warbler a week ago, with pretty low expecta...