Geotripper's California Birds

What's the most hated bird in Hawai'i? I have no idea. I don't live there and I don't think there's an official design...

Once again, in the category of "it seemed like a good idea at the time", someone decided to release a few dozen Himalayan pheasa...

I'm continuing our discussion of the invasive birds of Hawai'i. Some have more or less replaced those species that have gone extin...

So...you're walking down a tree-lined street in St. Louis, Missouri, and you see a flash of red in the branches. It's a Northern C...

Several million years ago, a small finch species, either pregnant or part of a small flock, got blown off course and somehow survived a to...

It's a week of ugly and tragic news. I'm not ignoring it, I'm following closely. But I'm also choosing to find some small ...

The Hawaiian Islands are host to a great many bird species, but few of those seen by island visitors are native to the islands. When human...

It was on my very first trip to the Hawaiian Islands that I started paying attention to birds, in large part because of the presence of a ...

We are going outside of California for awhile, since I was overseas on the Hawaiian Islands, and to say that there are lots of birds there...