I first made acquaintance with this species in San Torte, then a tiny community in Altamira Province, near the border with Nicaragua, on...

This small study of a couple of American White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) was done for fun, experimenting with colors and...

This life-size oil painting shows the subspecies of Red-tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis borealis, that is found throughout most of eastern...

Most of my elementary school days, in the 1950s, were spent at North Preparatory, Toronto, north of Chaplin Crescent, North Forest Hill,...

Older books place this species, whose primary range is confined to North America, in the “catch-all” genus “Larus” in company with many...

My back door opens onto a wooden deck with lattice roof and sides, but opening into a yard full of trees and bushes and backing onto a...

The Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) is rather drab of color, but elegant of form and graceful contours and delicacy of pattern. It...

The Whooping Crane (Grus americana) is North America’s tallest bird, standing a little over five feet (about 1.6 meters) in height. Years...

The Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) breeds throughout most of temperate and the more southern parts of the boreal regions of North...

The Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) is found on both sides of the northern half of the North Atlantic. Its scientific name translates...

This painting of four subspecies of the Turquoise Tanager (Tangara mexicana) channels my inner child. That’s because my childhood...

Here are four paintings done over the last four or five years but not previously posted to my list, of well-known North American bird...

The Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius), native to the northeast coast of North America, has been extinct since sometime late in...

The Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) has the most limited range, and smallest population, of any North American species of heron. It was...

This painting is very different from the vast majority of my works. It does include a Common Raven (Corvus corax), but in the distance,...

The Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) can certainly be seen in Tennessee spring and fall, as well as in all the other eastern...

Tiny Lizard a Conservation Success Story Union Island is a small island (about 9 km 2 ) in the Caribbean Ocean. In one tiny part of it, a...

The group of mammals that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises is call Cetacea, and the subject of my recent oil painting is the...

The Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) is distributed throughout many parts of Africa, mostly in arid, open country. Sadly, they...

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from the evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if...