Adult male orioles in breeding plumage are a thing of beauty. And a cinch to identify. You’re in Pennsylvania, say, and it’s May. An Orchard Oriole flies by, or a Baltimore Oriole is singing from the treetops. Easy peasy. The females and second-summer males of those species are more subtly marked, but, still, Orchard vs. [read more…]
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A review by Manuel Lerdau The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us, by Richard Prum Doubleday 2017 428 pages—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14815 Rick Prum’s The Evolution of Beauty has been reviewed many times in both the popular and the professional scientific press. My [read more…] A review by Chris Loscalzo Birding in Connecticut, by Frank Gallo Wesleyan University Press 2018 488 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14860 With its temperate climate, extensive coastline, and large tracts of open space ranging from mature forests to grassy fields, Connecticut is a superb place to see a great variety of birds [read more…] In your April issue of Birding, you may notice that some changes are afoot. One of those changes is mine to explain. Starting in this issue, “Milestones” will now be called “Celebrations.” Don’t worry; “Celebrations” will have the same great content as always. In fact, this change was inspired by that great content, and how [read more…] If you didn’t see the Conservation Milestones in the 2018 Birder’s Guide to Conservation & Community, take a moment to read them. You’ll be inspired. And now it’s time to do it again! If you have a conservation project, or if know someone has gone out of their way to help bird conservation, please tell [read more…] For this photo quiz we just threw a couple of interesting things up there, that whizzed through our computer screens, before we had a chance to analyze them, and we will now react to the comments we received on The ABA Blog. We both had some initial preconceived thoughts, some aligning with those of posters [read more…] It’s usually the case with the “Featured Photo” in Birding that we on the editorial and authorial side of things know, or think we know, what we’re dealing with, ID-wise. That’s not the case, though, with Feb. 2019 Featured Photos—yes, plural. Here we present photos of two birds that have been well documented yet stubbornly [read more…] 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…] |
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How to Know the Birds: No. 15, The Incomparable Coolness and Supreme Glory of Roadrunners
What: Greater Roadrunner, Geococcyx californianus When: Friday, August 23, 2019 Where: Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
You could make the case that I shouldn’t have gone birding that Friday morning. I had a meeting to attend and a presentation to prep for; I had a crushing load of deadlines in the week ahead; and [read more…]