Bird identification Posts

In part 1, we explored the first 20 monotypic bird families, each represented by a single living species with no close surviving relatives.......

Taxonomy is the scientific system used to classify living organisms, organizing them by how closely they are related, similar to a family tree......

I’m sure many of you may know this already, but I for one have been largely ignorant about one of the relatively newly split species, Scopoli’s Shearwater ...

Out in the field, and under the low light intensities that owls are seen in, Cape and Spotted Eagle-Owls can easily be, and often are, confused with each other....