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What are the odds?

Slaty-backed Gull in Gloucester, MA on 23 December 2007 – Photo by Phil Brown Part 1: On 6 December 2007 at about 8PM, in the midst of an intense winter storm, a resident of Lillooet, BC heard a thump on their front door. Thinking the dog wanted to come in, they opened the door to […]

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Calendars and columns

I was in Washington DC recently and signed some calendars at my cousin’s flower shop in Mount Airy, Maryland. So if you’ve been thinking about getting a calendar and you’d like one that I’ve signed, you can order them here. And my new Birder’s World column about identifying songbirds by flocking habits is now available

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Redpoll subspecies

If identifying Hoary Redpoll is not enough of a challenge for you, maybe you’d like to look for subspecies of Hoary and Common Redpolls? First, check out this map from the Canadian Atlas of Bird Banding. This shows selected western band recoveries of Common Redpolls, and the obvious suggestion is that some of the Common

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Redpoll Identification

Some updates 4 and 6 December –check out Jochen’s comments and blog post here With the predicted superflight of finches beginning to develop (1st ever Common Redpoll in New Mexico last week) more and more questions are coming up about finch identification. RedpollsHoary Redpoll, although always less numerous than Common south of the Arctic, is

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