On Friday, I went on a boat ride with a homeschool nature group run by a birding friend, and we saw some of these Pink-backed Pelicans, toda...

Here are my Birdtober posts so far. At most of these posts, you can find the Birdtober prompts I'm using. There's a US version, an i...

Today's bird is a grackle, and my colleague replaced it on the Ugandan calendar with a Rüppell's Starling. I knew right away why. Li...

Yesterday's bird was warlike, and today's is associated with peace. This one, extremely common here in Kampala, is easy to identify ...

Although I have seen lots of woodpeckers (I have thirteen species of them on my life list), I have only seen the Red-headed Woodpecker, the ...

I have six species on my life list with "Crow" in their names. (Plus some other corvids - did you know jays are related to crows?)...

At the end of September, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) announced that there are four new Caribbean species of wrens. I learned a...

Today is October Big Day, and when I was out birding and trying to reach my goal of 40 species (I did, by the way), I was especially looking...

Here are my Birdtober posts so far: Last Poetry Friday was Day Four, and contains links to Days One to Three (Plush-crested Jay, American R...

In keeping with today's mouse theme (the US prompt is Tufted Titmouse), the Ugandan prompt is the Speckled Mousebird. You can see why so...

Today's official bird prompt is a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, but my colleague's Uganda suggestion was the Gray Crowned-Crane, and I had t...

I've written a lot about herons in the past; here's a post from earlier this year with lots of heron poems. On Sunday morning by La...

I've been enjoying the multiple calendars for Birdtober this year, because it makes me think of families and of the enormous variety of ...

Photo Source: eBird.com Red-winged Blackbirds are common birds throughout North and Central America. My eBird records tell me I've had t...