Nowadays Is Now not the Equinox

Nowadays Is Now not the Equinox

Sundown is due west at the equinox, North Dakota Hwy 5 (photograph from Wikimedia Commons) 21 September 2023 Are we there but? Have we reached the equinox? In Pittsburgh the iciness solstice invariably arrives on … Read more

Every other Endemic Amazona – 10,000 Birds

Every other Endemic Amazona – 10,000 Birds

The islands of the Caribbean are house to 176 species of endemic birds inconsistently disbursed around the area. Some islands host one or two species, others greater than twenty. Many of those species are declining … Read more

The Blood Pheasant – 10,000 Birds

The Blood Pheasant – 10,000 Birds

The Blood Pheasant will get its title from the crimson-colored streaks on its frame – which it seems that to a few reasonably bizarre or overly imaginative folks seem like blood. The Latin species title … Read more

Migration Time, Once more – Ornithology

Migration Time, Once more – Ornithology

Fall is migration time within the Northern Hemisphere when birds go away their summer time houses to iciness at places to the south; within the spring the migration is reversed, the birds transferring from their … Read more