The Killdeer is the largest and best known of the "ringed" plovers. Although classified as a shore bird, these conspicuous, graceful birds are often found in areas far from water in open habitats a...
The Scarlet Tanager is one of the 5 species found in North America: there are also summer, western, hepatic and flame-colored tanagers. Scarlet Tanagers are mostly found in the eastern parts of N...
BIRD GUIDE: THE BELTED KINGFISHER
There are four types of kingfisher in North America: the Ringed Kingfisher, the Green Kingfisher, the Amazon Kingfisher, all living and breeding in the southern parts of the US. But the Belted King...
CHARLES DARWIN AND THE VAMPIRE FINCH
These finches had to develop razor-sharp beaks to find nutrition in the harshest of places. This adaptation led to sucking the blood of large seabirds.The scientific world was deeply perplexed: H...
BIRD-OF-THE-WEEK: THE DARK-EYED JUNCO
We are now in the depth of winter, which means that your bird feeders are crowded with foreign travelers. One international visitor to expect is most likely the dark eyed junco, called snow-birds ...
BIRD OF THE WEEK - THE SNOWY OWL
These white wizards have arrived from their summer homes in the Arctic tundra. Leaving their perches on the snowy hills and flying south, we can now see them on electricity and telephone poles or o...