Every summer, birders anxiously await publication of the “Check-list Supplement” by the American Ornithological Society’s Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North and Middle American Birds (a.k.a. the NACC). The supplement, available here, details revisions to the NACC’s Check-list. Below is a brief rundown of those changes.You can read all the proposals on which the [read more…]
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What: American Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos When: Saturday, February 16, 2019 Where: Front Range Birding Company, Boulder County, Colorado I’d arrived a bit early for the Saturday morning bird walk. What to do? Explore the parking lot of course. For one thing, parking lots are underrepresented in the eBird database. And there was something else: [read more…] We’re thrilled to announce the 2019 ABA Young Birders of the Year! [read more…] #copyright-container { overflow: hidden; margin: 0px 0 10px 0; } #copyright-container>* { width: 100%; float: left; margin: 0; } #copyright-container>#copyright-container-p { margin-left: -100%; background-color: #ebebeb; width: 100%; } #copyright-container:after { content: “”; display: table; clear: both; } The annual Top 10 Vagrants post has become one of our most popular, and most discussed, posts [read more…] 
It’s that time again, to launch a year honoring a special bird! It feels a bit obvious, doesn’t it? That the ABA, celebrating our 50th year in 2019, would choose our long-standing logo bird, the Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, to be the Bird of the Year in 2019. And it is, of course, but it’s [read more…] “BVD,” we birders like to say, when confronted with views such as these. No, we’re not talking about the brand of men’s underwear. “BVD,” to the birder, stands for “better view desired.” Is that an aesthetic judgment? We’d rather see a bird’s face than butt? Let’s not go there. Or is it a pragmatic assessment?—an [read more…] 
Every summer, birders anxiously await publication of the “Check-list Supplement” by the American Ornithological Society’s Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North and Middle American Birds (a.k.a. the NACC). The supplement, available here, details revisions to the NACC’s Check-list. Below is a brief rundown of those changes.You can read all the proposals on which the [read more…] Birders have a unique vocabulary, cribbed together from science, literature, and a thesaurus thrown at a Crayola Crayon box. But for many of our favorite words, there’s been little in the way of official recognition. Take “kettle” for instance. A birder knows that using the term doesn’t refer to vessel for making tea (unless you [read more…] |
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