Cannundrums

Like my last post on Lewis's woodpecker, I owe my first view of a pileated woodpecker to my son Sam. He is an arborist and has been work...

My woodpecker loving son, Sam, directed me to the Mt. Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles to find my first Lew...

The Reed cormorant, also known as the long-tailed cormorant, is found in sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of five small cormorants. It is: main...

I have a previous post on the purple heron ( April 3, 2019 ), ssp. manilensis, which I saw in Sri Lanka.  Illustration of ssp manilensis fly...

The fork-tailed drongo is also known as the African drongo or common drongo. It is found only in Africa, from the Sahel (below the Sahara) t...

I photographed two croaking cisticolas in Uganda. Neither has been substantiated by a reviewer on iNaturalist, but I believe our guide Willi...

My previous post on the zitting cisticola had a little bit on cisticolas in general and how difficult they are to identify, particularly in ...