The Birdchaser

So I couldn't find my digital camera when I headed out to Peace Valley this morning, so I thought I would play around with my cell phone...

Check out this story about Northern Pygmy Owls from Oregon Field Guides . Fantastic video of these little birds. If this doesn't make ...

Ever wondered where the phrase "for the birds" came from? Check it out here .

For the past five years, my favorite part of working for Audubon was working behind the scenes of the Great Backyard Bird Count . Almost as...

Latest study published yesterday on the domestication of the Wild Turkey has it occurring at least twice--first in Mexico about 800 BCE, and...

Ten conservation biologists have just published What Conservation Biologists Can Do to Counter Trap-Neuter-Return: Response to Longcore et ...

The Austin American Statesman just did a story about birds and birding at Hornsby Bend , where I did my masters thesis on birds and birding ...

OK, so John Flicker has resigned from leading Audubon after 15 years at the helm. I first met him right after he came on board. I had bee...

Today comes word that long-time Audubon president John Flicker has resigned , and my friend Frank Gill will be the new head there, at least ...

Read Scott Weidensaul's interesting commentary on the situation here .

Headed over to Peace Valley this morning to see what was at the lake. Now mostly frozen, the only birds were half a mile away near a small ...

While Old World birders are scouring the known and suspected winter range of this critically endangered (if not already extinct bird) for a...

Watch a pod of orcas chase a penguin, and how the penguin gets away!

A friend of mine just sent me a link to artist Todd McGrain's Lost Bird Project , a series of human-scale bronze sculptures memorializin...

Word on the street is that the AOU Committee has voted to split Pacific Wren from Winter Wren. That would mean that the birds I grew up wi...

On Sunday Kirk and Lois Moulton of North Wales found a Northern Shrike west of Quakertown on the Christmas Bird Count. Since it has been tw...

...a new blog template or layout. It's been three or four years since I tweaked my blog layout. Anyone with good suggestions on where ...

I've already come up with my best birds of the 2000s , but here's my quick list of my best birds of 2009: 1) Whooper Swan --great to...