Vagrant Pursuit

One of the major challenges of studying evolution is that animals tend to evolve over time periods that extend far beyond the lifetimes of t...

Two weeks ago I observed something quite unusual during a Snail Kite survey. I was tasked with meeting the project's Kissimmee area crew...

I am currently working as the field crew lead of the University of Florida’s Snail Kite monitoring project, which comes with several perks. ...

Those of us who aren’t so well-versed in speciation research--or perhaps even biologists from a few decades ago who were in their day but ar...

Every once in a while a phenomenon in birding transcends its niche and achieves its highest possible level of notoriety: your non-birder rel...

 *Disclaimer* I wrote this a little over a year ago before Trump won the election. There's a good argument to be made that in light of t...