On July 12th I birded at Mile Square Regional Park in Fountain Valley, California, in Orange County. There I recorded my 600th world eBird...

If one really works hard at it, one could see 350 species of birds in one year in San Diego County. eBird shows 3 persons who reached that m...

A new functionality has been added to eBird, the illustrated checklist. A sample is shown here: The above is a section of the eBird Hots...

I have just completed updating my annotated bird checklist page to San Diego birds, first created a year ago. It incorporates the AOS check...

The American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) Checklist Committee is the official body from which the North American bird checklist is deriv...

It has been my goal to see over 300 species in a year in San Diego County for each of the past 3 years. I'm not trying overly hard; I...

I have created a stand-alone page for an Annotated Checklist to the Birds of San Diego County . The main purpose of this checklist is to a...

The American Ornithologists' Union made two long-anticipated splits this year in its annual report. As a result, I added two life birds ...

I finally got good close looks and photos of a large parrot in San Diego. The only parrot on the official California bird checklist is the R...

I used some vacation time at the end of the year to take several trips and got in some birding time. This resulted in seeing and photographi...

"Where do I find Scaly-breasted Munia?" Visiting birders have asked this question since late 2013 when the bird's status in Ca...

The end of September marked 2 years living in San Diego County. The Management job for the mobile home park Marlene and I work at will be 2...

On May 16, 2015 I was aboard Grande for a pelagic trip from San Diego. We were fortunate enough to encounter a Laysan Albatross--very rare ...

Eastern Phoebe. Tijuana River Valley, San Diego, California. January 18, 2015. Greg Gillson. There are over 400 species of New World Tyr...

Thick-billed Kingbird. Chula Vista, California. January 18, 2015. Greg Gillson. In December 2010 an adult female Thick-billed Kingbird w...

I drove down Rangeland Road outside Ramona 2 weeks ago and spotted this distant falcon on a rock. I had only binoculars and camera, not s...

Factoid that may interest only me... ( à la SI Monday Morning Quarterback) I have been living in San Diego County for a year now. In tho...

Large-billed Savannah Sparrow. San Luis Rey River Mouth, Oceanside, California. September 7, 2014. Greg Gillson. While looking at shoreb...

I recorded and photographed two new bird names on my list of today's birds. But I didn't record any new life birds. These weren'...

Gull-billed Tern. Imperial Beach, California. July 4, 2014. Greg Gillson. One of my target species at Imperial Beach two weeks ago was G...