Cannundrums

My prior two posts have dealt with woodpeckers I saw because my son, Sam, had directed me to where he'd found them. Prior to those woodp...

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...