In this article in the Mar. 2024 issue of the Amer. Birding Assoc.'s Birding magazine, Holly Merker summarizes recent & remarkable research into the health & wellness benefits of going birding. The list of resources provided by Merker is especially valuable.

It's here... Unfortunately. In a thoroughly researched article in the current issue of the Amer. Birding Assoc.'s Birding magazine, Steve Hampton gives us a detailed look at avian flu in the ABA Area (also Europe and South Georgia), with data all the way through early 2024.

Forty-one years ago, we interviewed Peter Harrison in the Amer. Birding Assoc.'s Birding magazine. He was doing brilliant, pathbreaking work on seabirds at the time. Last month, we interviewed Peter again! He's still doing brilliant, pathbreaking work on seabirds.

This beautiful Harris's Sparrow, uncommon in our area, was at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Denver, Colo., earlier this Sat., Feb. 24, 2024.

FriendsofRMANWR Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR @USFWS

Short video of a dipper feeding in icy Boulder Creek yesterday. Just upstream from the busy intersection of U.S. 36 & Arapahoe Rd.

A Black Oystercatcher works the tide pools near the Fort Wilson lighthouse at Port Townsend, Wash., USA, Jan. 21, 2024.

Wait. What? It's already two full weeks into 2024? Anyhow, here's an American Dipper earlier this frigid Sun. afternoon, Jan. 14, at the 75th St. bridge in Boulder, Colo.

MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Colorado Rockies!

This Type 2 Red Crossbill was feeding in a ponderosa pine right at sunrise this frigid Christmas morning just west of Boulder.

This female Common Merganser was soaking up some rays at sundown on the winter solstice a couple of hours ago.

(Lafayette, Boulder Co., Colo., USA.)

A goose channels its inner phalarope . . .

(Boulder Co., Colo., USA, Wed., Dec. 6, 2023.)

Here's another entry in the 'Bushtits do the darnedest things' category.

This cellphone video (and it's an old cellphone!) is from the car wash at the Conoco at US 287 & Baseline in Lafayette, Colo.

Go figure!