For some odd reason, Mother Nature seems to have forgotten that it is now the latter half of April, and that in Oregon that means rain and moderate temperatures. This evening the forecast for the northwest corner of the state, as well as southwest Washington, indicates temperatures around freezing, and possibilities of ice or snow […]
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
Among the wide variety of book genres pertinent to the subject, the field guide is unparelleled in its importance to the growth and development of modern bird watching. In the course of its history since the development into its modern form by Roger Tory Peterson in 1934 with his landmark A Field Guide to the […]
The Birds of Texas Parks & Wildlife
When I opened my post box this afternoon, I found a pelican looking back at me, a Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) to be both generic as well as specific. Now before you chastise me for having been into the sauce before the sun was fully over the yard-arm as well as for making bad taxonomic […]
The View from Lookout Rock
For some time now, I’ve noticed that one particular rock, which I have dubbed Lookout Rock, in our front garden seems to be of great interest to all the birds who visit the property. Any bird I’ve seen anywhere near the front feeders at one time or another seemingly finds it necessary to stand on […]