I recently received a great honor: a new (albeit extinct) species of owl was named after me. Craves’s Giant Barn Owl ( Tyto cravesae ) was r...

Have we learned our lesson? Fifty years ago this month the important book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published. This book warn...

Chimney Swifts are probably familiar to most people: twittering "flying cigars" in our summer skies, feeding on aerial insects....

Our moth program with field guide author Seabrooke Leckie was a great success! We were a bit worried about the cool weather, but Seabrooke ...

It's with great anticipation that I announce an upcoming program, a joint effort between RRBO and the University of Michigan-Dearborn E...

The Rouge River Bird Observatory banded its first bird -- a Black-capped Chickadee -- in 1992. Since then, we've banded over 33,000 more...

Julie Jedlicka was an RRBO bander from 2000 to 2003, when she was a graduate student at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She went on to...

[2017 update at bottom of post] I get a fair number of calls to help rescue birds from various situations, often inside buildings. Usual...

In my last post I outlined the first portion of my recent trip to Nicaragua. Here is the next installment. Part 2: Finca El Jaguar In 2009, ...

Readers will recall that my husband Darrin O'Brien and I like to do "working" vacations, where we travel to Latin American cou...