WC had a second target bird for his recent Panama trip: the Crested Eagle. While not quite as large as a Harpy Eagle, it’s still a very large raptor with an impressive head crest and near-six foot wingspan. As with the Harpy Eagle, these birds were at a nest, with a chick, and it was…

Puffbirds are a fairly exotic family of birds. Some 37 species exist, all in the Central and South America. One of those species is the White-whiskered Puffbird.1 On Saturday morning, WC got to watch a White-whiskered Puffbird have a late morning snack. WC will let the photos tells most of the rest of the story.…

Crikey. WC leaves the internet for a few days and returns to find that Gov. Mike “Sucker Punch” Dunleavy has kicked Alaska and the Alaska economy in the fork. You have to wonder how many times Alaskans will elect a governor from Wasilla before they learn their lesson. It’s too much to deal with right…

This is a pretty wretched photo; WC includes it only because it’s the best image WC has of this distant cousin to last week’s Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, the Fork-tailed Flycatcher. It’s a vagrant species in the United States, but fairly common in Mexico and Central America, and much of South America. The tail is even longer…

North America boasts two very long-tailed flycatchers. The first is the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. It’s found in the summer throughout he southcentral United States, and year-round in Mexico and Central America. It’s a bit of bug-eating specialist, targeting mostly grasshoppers and beetles. The male’s tail is longer than the female’s and the colors on the female…

The Tufted Flycatcher is another beautiful, elegant bug-eating bird. It’s fairly common in Mexico and Central America, ranging into northern Columbia and occasionally into Texas and Arizona. WC wouldn’t usually post a strongly backlit image like this, but this male was guarding (or distracting possible predators) from his mate and their nest. As you can…