Cannundrums

My prior post was on the dusky grouse, which used to be the same species as the sooty grouse when both were identified as blue grouse. The d...

The dusky grouse and sooty grouse used to be part of the same species known as the blue grouse. The dusky grouse is found in the mountainous...

The California quail is the quail of my youth growing up in the foothills of Salt Lake City. It is also the quail of my mid-life and now old...

On March 18, 2022 I visited the Mashpi Amagusa Reserve , in the Mashpi-Pachijal IBA, near Mindo in Ecuador. One of the most significant morn...

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,...