Butler's Birds

The Salton Sea is a weird place, so naturally it's popular with weird birds, like gender-role reversing Phalaropes. There were hundreds...

Much like on Tatooine and the other far-flung desert planets of our universe, the area surrounding the Salton Sea is a desolate stretch that...

Godwits are intrinsically elegant birds and prodigious migrators, but they have one of the more etymologically befuddling names in ...

Hello Humans! And anyone else who might be visiting from beyond the stars... It's been super busy these last few weeks. The opportunit...

A few of weeks ago Pops and I drove out to an infamous, festering hole of satan sweat in southeastern California also know as the Salton Se...

The end of August and early September is a strange time of year for birding in Phoenix. The usual birding patches are often under-populated,...

Last week I made the rash decision to dash and see a vagrant Purple Gallinule at the Gilbert Water Ranch on Sunday evening. This immature bi...

Hello Readers, For the 11th month in a row, the future has arrived, and now since it is the 4th of the month again, my monthly contributio...

There are several genera of birds that are notoriously hard to identify. Here in North America, beginning and experienced bird-watchers ali...