Deb Hirt

Since this is getting to be southbound shorebird season, my favorite shorebird is the Ruddy Turnstone. We will mix this up a little with old versus new data.

Over a half century has passed and we are pleasantly surprised with Pete Dunne’s and Kevin Karlson’s “The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration.” Peter Matthissen’s

With summer nearly upon us, Atlantic Puffins are seen delivering fish to their young ones and Razorbills have young.

Red Knot migration can equal the same distance from earth to moon, which is why B-95 was called Moonbird, if readers read the book. They have a relationship with the

Fifty years marks a turning point over time where we have seen such a plethora of good data available to us all. Gone are the days of library time, and

We have heard about poison dart frogs of Central and South America and perhaps seen them at a reptilian zoo, but how many might know about last year’s discovery of more poisonous birds in the New Guinea jungles?

“Birds of Costa Rica” by Dale Dyer and Steve N. G. Howell is a 2023 publication. It covers over 800 species found in the country with 200 or better

Does everyone recall the rare encounter with the American Redstart-Magnolia Warbler hybrid on Sept. 11, 2023? This occurred in a migratory corridor on the edge of Hamilton, Ontario.

We’re about ready to gear up for football, but birds have some much better athletes in wings, who dutifully do what they need to do twice a year.

“Birds of Greater Southern Africa” by Keith Barnes, John Fanshawe, and Terry Stevenson was released last month by Princeton University Press.