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Black-bellied Whistling Duck , fka Black-bellied Tree Duck Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands, Florida, USA April 2022 Member of the Ducks...

Pileated Woodpecker Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, California, USA May 2021 Member of the Woodpecker Family §A Crown of Woodpeck...

 Greetings bird fans. You know, something I've learned over the years of doing this blog is that all birds are great, but not all bird n...

The winter months in the California Bay Area are definitely Weird Duck Time. Follow the excellent Rosemary Mosco on Twitter It's a grea...

Wilson's Warbler Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, Oakland, California, USA June 2020 Member of the Wood Warbler Family §A Confu...

White-breasted Nuthatch Chestnut Hill Reservation, Brighton, Massachusetts, USA June 2019 Member of the Nuthatch Family § A Jar of Nu...

Nanday Parakeet aka. Black-hooded Parakeet aka. Nanday Conure Solstice Canyon Park, Malibu, California, USA July 2018 Member of the Lo...

Hi, hello, bird blog readers. This might surprise some of you, but once upon a time, and briefly, I wrote a rap blog. What can I say, I'...

Hey all. Sometimes birding is hard out there. When you've been doing it for as long as I have, and trying to blog about once a week, for...

Recently the staff of Amateurnithologist was walking in the desert, like you do, hoping for the unlikely Sage Grouse or Roadrunner siting, b...

Ah, late summer. It's that time of the year when it's super hot out, birds are least plentiful, and your Amateurnithologist struggl...