Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds.

Birders drool at the thought of seeing a Horned Puffin. Birders in the Aleutians drool because they are so common and boring. Ok thats n...

Red-legged Kittiwake. "LBB". "LBJ". These are specieist terms. Yup. That's even worse than racism you know...bei...

Crested and Least Auklets in the midst of their nightly spectacle off Main Talus. Tufted Puffin. Their beaks are not all show though....t...

Much like people, Crested Auklets get a kick out of rubbing the crap out of each other. Obviously, the good-looking ones get the most actio...

Thick-billed Murre. Handsome. I think I will post really big, vertical pictures today. Why not? All of them are from Buldir Island. I som...

A Thick-billed Murre wings its way past Buldir Island's Spike Camp . And so much for that.  Elections.  Depending on how you look at i...

A Thick-billed Murre ponders the meaning of cliffs. Tremble at the eye of the auklet (crested).  North Bight Beach, next to our field c...

A male (cock?) Rock Ptarmigan on Adak.  Look at those eyecombs!  What a stud. I’ll be the first one to admit that coming back to civiliza...