The Birdchaser

In case you haven't seen them yet, a couple months ago there were some leaked photos from The Big Year set showing Steve Martin in cos...

Check out this story about the large Purple Martin roost at a mall in Austin, TX (I get a short quote in the middle).

Since we were driving through South Dakota last week , we just had to make a play for the Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush found singing thi...

For the past 15 years I've been able to say I've studied birds in 47 of the 50 U.S. states (and assorted foreign countries). Last y...

So I took the long way back east from Portland so I could take my kids to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge , where I became a birder back in...

So last week I got to spend six days camping with my extended family at Milo McIver State Park on the Clackamas River in Oregon. Part of t...

So after our little murre rescue yesterday, I took the kids to Cannon Beach to look for Tufted Puffins nesting on Haystack Rock. The bird...

Last week we were in Utah and I met up with birding buddy Bill Fenimore from Layton to go out and find Flammulated Owls ( photo here ). L...

So I'm at Hug Point on the Oregon Coast with my family and the kids find a Common Murre washed up on the beach. It doesn't want to...

This morning at 9am I had a Glossy Ibis south of Benson in Cache Co. This is perhaps the 11th report (6 accepted by the Utah Bird Records C...

So I'm crossing the country in the minivan with the kids, headed out to Utah and Oregon for a month of family (and birds, of course!). ...

Just a quick update: I'm currently teaching a Sustainability and Environment class at Rosemont College in Philly. Will be teaching a B...

Great news, you can now enter into eBird your bird sightings from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD . Time to break out the old trip lists. Maybe now ...

So I've started a new gig as a consulting ornithologist for Bird-B-Gone , a leading bird pest control company out of California. I'...

Hiked up Haycock Mountain near Lake Nockamixon this morning. Lots of birds singing, but not as many warbler species as I might have hoped (...

Partners in Flight, the cooperative effort to save birds in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, has just published a new plan-- Saving ou...

So a regional eBird reviewer in Oregon just sent me a note: We are asking for additional details on the following observation: Species: Cord...

Best bird this morning at Peace Valley were 3 singing Worm-eating Warblers . Don't get to see too many of those around here, so it was ...

Had a nice walk at Peace Valley this morning, and picked up nine warbler species, as well as FOS Eastern Kingbird and Great Crested Flycatc...

When I was working for Audubon, I wrote an Audubon Birdscapes blog (www.audubonbirdscapes.org) to promote urban bird conservation. Shortly ...