The word “gull” probably has the ability to elicit the widest range of emotion among birders and non-birders alike of any bird name. To som...

After a period of dormancy on the blog, I finally have a little bit of time to write a few more posts. This is one of the last of the Churc...

Here are a couple more neat graphs about the rate of discovery of new bird species that I couldn't fit well into my previous two posts a...

In Part 1 , I looked at the history of bird species discovery, and found that new bird species have been described at a fairly steady rate o...

" You think you know every bird in the world, and then someone shows you a Curl-crested Aracari" David Quammen, The Song of the Do...