The Birdchaser

At work this afternoon, I took a walk down by the creek and found a new yard bird (Common Merganser) and new 2006 yard bird (Wood Duck). Si...

Let me just say it like this...our political leaders and many in the media are either sadly misinformed, or they are playing politics with ...

Something I've been working on for quite awhile is now online. Take the Healthy Yard Pledge to help create a healthy environment and p...

Back in 2001, some friends in Austin were planning to set up a website where you could pay to watch bird videos, with the proceeds going to ...

Yesterday as I was taking out the trash, I heard a gull overhead. Looking up as the Ring-billed Gull flew over, I noticed a flock of Snow G...

I'm quoted briefly in a New York Times article on bird flu that came out today. If you want to read the whole thing, go here (its a d...

Sunday morning, I joined birding friend, Florida bird distribution guru, and birdfinding guide author Bill Pranty in searching for the last...

In case you haven't heard, one of the next species to be added to the ABA Checklist of North American birds is likely to be the Black-ho...

After drinking in the sights of the Everglades for a few hours, I headed back to “civilization” to search the urban jungles of Kendall for e...

Waking up before sunrise on Friday morning, I had a choice to make—head to Miami to look for exotic Red-whiskered Bulbuls and Spot-breasted ...

U.S. Highway 41, the Tamiami Trail, crosses the Big Cypress National Preserve and the Everglades as it runs from Napes to Miami. I spent al...

Thursday, I was up at 3am for the drive to the airport. By 9am, I was in Tampa, and half an hour later, I was in my rental car speeding sou...

Yesterday I was in meetings all day at the National Audubon Society headquarters at 700 Broadway in New York City. The heavily built landsc...

After months of seeing thousands of Common Mergansers almost every time I go to Peace Valley, this morning I was able to find three Red-brea...

Great op-ed in the International Herald Tribune . Why can't we get more news stories and investigative reporting about legal and illegal...

Today Kenn Kaufman sparked a round of discussion about the Luneau woodpecker ID on the ID Frontiers email list. Check out his post here , a...

If you read the Sibley Article and the Cornell Rebuttal Article , you've only seen half the evidence they draw on to make their case. ...

Why is it, that whenever a bird story hits the news, reporters can't seem to avoid using bad bird puns? In the most recent CBS story a...

Ivory-billed Woodpecker searcher Bobby Harrison claims to have additional video of a distant Ivory-billed Woodpecker visiting one of his woo...

The Nature Conservancy has put up a fine essay by David Sibley detailing his views on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker search, conservation of t...