The new Indiana Raptor Center website is open for business. I've written about Indiana Raptor Center several times over the years. T...

My local rescue and rehab center for birds of prey, Indiana Raptor Center in Nashville, Indiana, is preparing for its big annual fundraise...

That there is Shawnee, a young example of the extant theropod species Haliaeetus leucocephalus , the bald eagle. I met him recently at Ind...

Indiana is currently experiencing a growing trend in shootings of raptors. This is a serious federal offense, carrying huge fines, but nonet...

An ostrich ( Struthio camelus ) doing something rather unlikely at Chessington World of Adventures . I find ostriches rather unnervin...

On Tuesday, I shared the story of a male turkey vulture with a broken wing whose retrieval I took part in. I talked to Laura from Indiana Ra...

One of the most common complaints of the stick-in-the-mud 'I heart the 1990s' crowd regarding fully feathered-up restorations of (pr...

Recently, Niroot (yes! Him again! ) went back to Chiang Mai in Thailand and visited the Chiang Mai zoo, where he found the below information...

At one of my very favorite blogs, Cold Splinters , Jeffery Thrope recently posted a short memorial to the nature poet John Haines. I hadn...

The Tawny Eagle, Aquila rapax . Another gem from Dan Ripplinger , from Flickr. Look at an eagle and know: this bird means business. All bird...

If you've been following this blog for a while, it probably won't come as a shock to learn that I collect old magazines that feature...

A week ago Monday, Michael Barton of Dispersal of Darwin reviewed Switek's Written in Stone , and with the review he shared a clip of a...

Photo by Ashok Khosla , via Flickr. Yes, I've already declared my love for Meleagris gallopavo here. But in the USA, tomorrow is Thank...

I'll probably always associate the varied whistles, chirps, burbles, and especially the somewhat harsh "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" c...

Photo by Kevin Morrison, via flickr. This bird stopped on a cruise ship while migrating over the Gulf of Mexico. One day four or five years ...

I've been meaning to feature birds more often here - as they are the living descendants of theropod dinosaurs - and I've decided to ...

Birds have been a popular photographic subject forever, so they are predictably well-represented at Flickr. Some of my favorite photos are t...

This morning, I had the rare treat of simultaneously hosting both a Hairy and a Downy Woodpecker at my suet block. As Hairy took her time an...

While rifling through the Skeptics Guide to the Universe archive, I ran across one of their 5 x 5 podcasts dealing with the dinosaur-bird ...

Just ran across a cool gallery at New Scientist called Monsters of the Skies, running down some of the giant avian theropods and pterosaurs...