Butler's Birds

No doubt one of the coolest Flycatchers in our galaxy, the Scissor-Tailed took Tim Burton's bleak plot device ( Edward Scissorhands ) an...

Western Kingbirds are big, yellow, and ornery, much like Big Bird from Sesame Street. Unlike Big Bird from Sesame Street, they're aesthe...

I spent this past weekend in Dallas, Texas. While the express purpose of this trip was not birding, I was certainly hoping to fit some in on...

The Verdin is a southwestern specialty and is a wonderful creature by all accounts. They make great nests, they're colorful, they're...

It seems like spring only lasted for a couple weeks, and now we're already into summer. Perhaps that explains the recent beach posts on ...

Lark Bunting, Lark Sparrow, Meadowlark...it seems like the name 'Lark' is often put with birds that aren't even in the family, s...

These Bitterns have it rough. They're one of the smallest birds in the Heron/Egret/Bittern group. Their larger cousin, the American Bitt...

As we get closer and closer to summer, it seems harder and harder to make it through each week. Somehow, it seems like time slows down, and ...