The Birdchaser

After a tougher than usual morning of getting the family out of the house, my acute birding anemia flared up really bad, and I had to take a...

Sad story here . But cool to know there is a 75 year old flamingo out there!

I've been really busy working on my doctoral dissertation, and working, and haven't gotten out for any length of real birding. So m...

Ever find a feather, and were just dying to know what bird it came from? You can get a little help in your feather identification quest fro...

This is one strange dino--and since it is feathered, probably very closely related to birds. Without further ado, straight from China, here...

Back in the early 2000s, Project Prairie Bird was a citizen-science program to monitor wintering sparrows and other grassland birds in Texa...

Its official. The birding police have demoted me to the position of Casual Birder. Its true, I've been busy writing my doctoral disser...

A very cool news story about this here .

Great cartoon on Global Warming. Don't miss it.

This Thursday I'll be giving a presentation to the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club on Urban Bird Ecology and Conservation. See her...

This week Audubon Birdscapes features cartoons, old bird feeder ads, and other goodies addressing how we care for birds and the environmen...

Usually when you go out to eat, you don't think too much about the bread they serve, unless there is something wrong with it. You just ...

This week Audubon Birdscapes features posts on: Great Blue Heron Feeders --you can probably guess how to create one, but do you know how to...

A nice read for your morning, check it out here !

Here's an online source for a bunch of Mopan Maya stories , most involving birds. We collected additional versions of some of these sto...

I'm not sure if its my recent 40th birthday, or the upcoming 4th anniversary of this blog, or what, but I seem to be succumbing to some ...

Despite the photo I'm talking about my recent bird sightings, not the actor . The last couple weeks have been pretty light on the birdi...

Someone once told me that you know what you are by what you do when you don't have to do anything. With a free day or morning on your ca...

Here's a report on damage caused by Hurricane Ike at High Island. It sounds pretty bad, but could have been worse. It'll probably...