Cannundrums

I saw my first ring-necked duck in San Angelo, Texas in March of last year. I'd never heard of it before and noted that it did not have...

The greater scaup and lesser scaup are ducks that can be very difficult to differentiate.  The Merlin Bird ID app describes the greater scau...

I did a post on the pied-billed grebe in 2014 after seeing some in Florida. For some reason I've found it hard to get good photos of th...

The brant  is a small goose with three subspecies: (a) the dark-bellied brant; (b) the pale-bellied brant (also known as the Atlantic brant ...