American Birding Association

Pileated Woodpecker – The 2021 ABA Bird of The Year

By Mia McPherson|January 5th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Hillsborough County, Lettuce Lake Regional Park, Pileated Woodpeckers, Pinellas County|Tags: ABA Bird of the Year, adult, American Birding Association, Australian Pines, branch, Dryocopus pileatus, female, male, perched, Pileated Woodpecker, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

The American Birding Association has selected the Pileated Woodpecker as their Bird of the Year for 2021 and I think it is an excellent choice.

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Possible Eastern and Western Willet Split in 2017

By Mia McPherson|January 21st, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Utah, Willets|Tags: ABA, adult, American Birding Association, American Ornithological Society, AOS, DNA, Eastern Willet, flight, flying, inornata, semipalmata, shorebirds, species, split, Tringa semipalmata, Tringa semipalmata inornata, Tringa semipalmata semipalmata, Western Willet, Willet|

The question regarding this proposal is... Willet happen?

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Possible Name Change for Ring-necked Duck to Ring-billed Duck

By Mia McPherson|January 20th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Ring-necked Ducks, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Birding Association, American Ornithological Society, Aythya collaris, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, male, name change, pond, Ring-billed Duck, Ring-necked Duck, urban, waterfowl, winter|

In 2017 one of the proposals submitted to the AOS is to rename Ring-necked Ducks to Ring-billed Ducks and I personally am all for the name change!

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