Left image: During an online event hosted by Nature Canada in early March, Canadian literary icon and avid bird watcher Margaret Atwood...

Through the winter, London birders have the opportunity to see many duck species. Although brown ducks can present a perplexing...

If weather conditions permit, it’s a treat to get out on the rural roads to look for birds. Out into the visual freedom of big sky...

Even though we only have a silhouette view of this bird, its size, shape, and even its perch give us powerful identification clues. Any...

The following conversation was had between the author and Pete Read, the long-standing Compiler of records from London's participation in...

What do these two birds have in common? Left image: The Canada Jay is a boreal bird that was once very common in Algonquin Provincial...

“What is the difference between a gull and a seagull? Gulls are members of a large, widespread family of seabirds. Often known as...

While most of our Great Blue Herons migrate south each winter, some will stay in London and across Southwestern Ontario. As long as there...

Take a walk along London’ s Greenway Park this winter and you are likely to see one of our distinctive diving ducks. You won’t even need...

Through 2021, London birders celebrated the Northern Cardinal, as well as sightings of Spotted Towhee, Harlequin Duck, Swallow-tailed...

I have to admit, I’ve been avoiding the tricky topic of accipiters on this blog. What’s an accipiter you ask? In Latin, it just means...

If you picked up one of the Birds of Ontario puzzles recently, purchased through our admin Brendon, you’ll see that some of the pieces...

This article has been reposted from its original publication in The Cardinal by Nature London with permission from the author. The almost...

Map of iNaturalist records for London, Ontario. Over 50,000 observations, spanning at least 4,257 species have been posted to date. Photo...

It’s all in the i-Details Birds in Black I have never used the very popular Merlin app for bird identification. As mentioned in an...

Through the eBird platform, you can contribute bird sightings to citizen science at the same time that you enrich your own bird watching...

The Canada Goose. A presence so ubiquitous in our fall landscape that even non-birders can tell it apart from other birds. It has the...

Winter’s coming! Oh, so not excited? Well, its one of the best times of the year for birdwatchers to see eagles. Fewer leaves to obscure...

What’s black and white and red all ov..., no, wait, the red is just on the head. There are several woodpecker species that fit this...

In preparation for the Christmas Bird Count, here is another installment in "It's All in the i-Details" series. Honing Your skills for...