Cannundrums

The purple finch has been an elusive find. I have seen lots of very red house finches that I've wondered might be purple finches, to no ...

On April 8, 2023 I was at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve in Morongo Valley, California when I saw my one and only (so far) pine siskin. It is ...

On July 25, 2022 we spent a day in the Tagus Estuary of Portugal with Bernardo Barreto, a bird guide. A bird pointed out to me by Bernardo,...

I've only seen Cassin's finch once, but it was a marvelous showing of multiple birds, both male and female, on April 8, 2023 at Big ...

I saw my first American goldfinch at Big Morongo Canyon Reserve in Morongo Valley, California, on May 14, 2022. It is a species I'd been...

We spent part of December 2024 in Assam, in northeastern India, in Kaziranga NP. One morning we were driving toward the Burhapahar Range, al...

The little heron, with 20 subspecies, is a new species as of 2023 when it was broken off from the striated heron. I saw one at Keoladeo NP n...