The Birdchaser

So, how well do you know your common birds? There are three things "wrong" with this Blue Jay. What are they?

My upcoming talk to the Precolumbian Society at the University of Pennsylvaina Museum on October 9 The Woodpecker is a Witch! Birds among ...

So yesterday I spent an hour with my Rowan University students teaching them how to identify birds with a field guide. We did it as a game,...

Birding, more than anything, is characterized by dreaming. While birdwatchers may be satisfied to enjoy the birds they happen to see in the...

A nice morning walk around the reservoir at Pine Run this morning. Not a huge amount of shorebird diversity (see list at end), and didn...

Last night at the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club meeting I was able to hang out with Ted Floyd and pick up a copy of his latest Let...

Here's another email I get all the time over at AbsoluteBirdControl.com : I live in a residential city area. I often have my 2 small dog...

This morning I went out for some stilted birding. The standard definition of stilted is "stiffly or artificially formal; stiff." ...

My wife is not a birder. She is a runner. Even when she isn't running, when months or years go by without a good run, there is a core ...

Some people just don't like birds. Here's an actual email I got as part of my work helping people with their bird control issues at...

So I've been thinking a lot about the search for a new head of the American Birding Association . I don't have much to say about it...

Back when I was out of town, FM 89.3 in Louisville broadcast a previously taped radio interview I did with them last month. We talked about...

This morning I got an urgent appeal from BirdLife International. A massive forest fire on the island of Madeira recently killed a number...

After working with Ch'orti', Mopan, Kekchi, and Tzutujil Mayan speakers in Guatemala and Belize, Kerry Hull and I decided this year...

On our second day of field work in Tucta, Tabasco, one of our Chontal friends told us a tradition about taking cuervo (crow) eggs from a nes...

So you are a young kid in Mexico. You like birds. You've got some cool birds flying around your house. So you go to your local librar...

We spent several hours one morning at the Granja de Tortugas, a turtle rearing facility near Nacajuca. Think fish hatchery but for turtles....

After working up in the Chiapas Highlands, we dropped back down to Tabasco for more field work with Chontal speakers near Nacajuca. We got ...

While we went to Ocosingo and Tila to work with Chol Mayan speakers, we ran into quite a few local Tzeltal Mayan speakers as well, and spent...

After a five hour bus ride from Villahermosa to Ocosingo, we took a small van and then road in the back of a truck for three more hours up t...