There is a website called Ask the
Experts on which you can submit a question, for free, on a large variety of
subjects and get an answer from experts, or at least knowledgeable people, in
the field. I have been answering questions on wild birds on this site for years
and have answered about …

The Belted
Kingfisher is most
often seen flying along or above creeks as it makes its distinctive, raucous,
chattering call,  but it can also be spotted above any body of water as it searches for likely
prey. It plunges into the water headfirst to capture fish, its preferred food,
but it will also take frogs, …

  Lately we
have been hearing about the Falcated Duck visiting the Colusa Wildlife Refuge,
way out of its normal range of Russia, China, Mongolia, Japan, and Korea. Of
course this got birdwatchers all excited and some came to see the bird from as
far away as Florida. Now it’s certainly possible that this is …

It has been written that there are 81
million birdwatchers in the United States. Well, if you include every person
who looks out his or her window and observes it for a few seconds, then that
figure might be accurate. But how many of them give birds a good look …

Almost every week someone tells me
they read my blog, “Those Amazing Birds.”
What they really mean is that they read an excerpt of my blog that the E-R
publishes each Monday, not the real blog
on http://www.norcalblogs.com/birds/.
After all, “blog” is short for “web log” or a log kept on the …