In  The Bird Name Book , Susan Myers quotes the ornithologist Tom Iredale writing in 1924. He called fairy-wrens "whiffs of beauty....

  Singing from the top of a termite mound Red-and-yellow Barbet makes a musical sound Brightly colored, polka-dotted Red-and-yellow Barbet, ...

Amazon stinkbird Orange crest, red eyes, blue face Hissing and grunting   ©Ruth Bowen Hersey          

  When I was a child in Kenya, Lake Nakuru was known for its enormous numbers of flamingos. Today there aren't as many. The water levels...

Today's post is cheating a little, because I'm reusing something I wrote back in 2021 for October 19th, when the prompt was simply ...

  The Wilson's Bird-of-Paradise is, as David Attenborough says in the second video above, "very tidy." This famous footage is ...

  As so often happens when I start researching birds on the Birdtober calendar, with this one I was immediately pulled into a world I knew n...

The Blue-necked Jacamar is also called the Blue-cheeked Jacamar. These birds remind me of kingfishers, bee-eaters, todies, and hummingbirds....

  These birds, though called bitterns, aren't really part of the bittern family. A nineteenth century bird book called them "Peacoc...

The Bird Name Book , by Susan Myers, suggests that a better name for this bird would be Hen-of-the-Rock because it's named after where t...