Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds.

Although we are now in Ross's Goose season, this was a bird of spring. With a dent in its head for some reason, but more importantly...

Meet Troglodytes pacificus meligerus, the form of Pacific Wren found from Buldir Island to Attu Island, in the western Aleutians.  Som...

"This is a nonlister's worst nightmare." - Anonymous longtime lister and gull aficionado. First-winter Herring Gull, San F...

The Aleutian subspecies of Pacific Wren (juvenile) and Song Sparrow (adult), whom I asked to pose together for your convenience. You're...

Gray-crowned Rosy-finches are common in the Aleutian Islands.  This one mingled with auklets and puffins on Buldir's Main Talus. Huh....

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...