The Birdchaser

Birder's World this month has guides to two of my local birding patches--Hornsby Bend near Austin where I wrote my master's thesis ...

Birder's World has just published The Other Guys , Auburn University ornithologist Geoffrey Hill's report of his Florida Ivory-bille...

Today I was able to see a bird that has a wild population of less than 300 birds, a pair of Waldrapp or Northern Bald Ibis . This isn't...

The following tip comes from David Tracy, posted to the OBOL email list. David has a rare Costa's Hummingbird coming to a feeder in fre...

Yesterday was the Upper Bucks Christmas Bird Count. I had a challenging area to cover--basically 5 miles of a major road between Quakertown...

If you haven't seen the new Google mapping tool in eBird , its time to give eBird another look. In the past, it was fairly easy, but sti...

I've recently taken on the ownership/moderation of the Conservation Through Birding email group. There have been a lot of good discuss...

Junkscience.com has declared the Ivory-billed Woodpecker "rediscovery" in Arkansas as one of its Top Ten Junk Science Moments for ...

An NPR story today reviews the latest paper indicating that poultry may pose the greatest risk of transmitting H5N1 avian influenza to the ...

Links to my blog posts about the Hog Island Audubon Leadership Camp are online here . I'm planning on another great week in Maine this ...

For the latest best posts in the world of bird blogging, I and the Bird #37 is online here .

This weekend, birders found a LeConte's Sparrow in a weedy field near my house. Dozens of birders have been there each day since then....

Thanksgiving morning we were busy getting ready to have company over, so we had to postpone our annual Wild Turkey search until Friday. L...

It isn't the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Its a duck, the Madagascar Pochard . Pretty exciting news if you're into rare birds.

When you say "bird", does it sound rhyme with "word" or does it have another sound? You can take a nifty quiz to distin...

We're coming up on one of my favorite holidays--Thanksgiving, or better yet Turkey Day. I love that we have a holiday that features a b...

On my way to work this morning, I finally saw the Brant goose that has been hanging out at Peace Valley Park for at least the past week or s...

Its that time of year again, time to start counting the birds at your feeders for fame and fortune...or at least for science. Brought to yo...

I'm fascinated by the relationships that people have with birds. Purple Martin landlords, folks that put up and maintain those Purple M...

How about a way to identify birds by sound as they pass high overhead? New Scientist reports that researchers are experimenting with this t...