Howdy, friends. Our bird this week is another barbet, this time from Asia. The blue-throated barbet is native to the Lower Himalayas in India, Pakistan, and through large segments of Southeast Asia. The Lower Himalayas are a subrange of the … Continue reading The WPT is Continually Loud
Howdy, friends. We’re doing barbets again this week, although information is getting more scarce as I move down the list. Our bird this week is the lemon-throated barbet, native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and a bit of Peru. The Clements … Continue reading The WPT is still on Barbets
Howdy, friends. I hope everyone is doing well despite everything. Your humble host has been snowed in all week. The city didn’t plow our street, my neighbors have been derelict at best in their duty to shovel their section of … Continue reading The WPT Holds onto What’s Golden
Howdy, friends. Our bird this week is one about which I couldn’t find a whole lot, even in terms of images, but its too visually striking to not do a header about. The purple-bearded bee-eater is native to the Indonesian … Continue reading The WPT has a Favored Perch
Howdy, friends. I know it has gotten exceedingly real out there, I hope learning about the wonders of nature can help everyone relax, if only a little. Our bird this week is the rainbow bee-eater, which lives in most of … Continue reading The WPT is Adorned
Howdy, friends. On Friday afternoon Mrs. Killsock was finally discharged from the hospital and is now back in her pillow fort in the bedroom. Aside from a couple of days at home before it turned out she was immediately needed … Continue reading The WPT Gets to do Something Normal
Howdy, friends. Sorry to file a filler header so soon after my return, but I have been spending the week with Mrs Killsock’s numerous and oppressively welcoming family and I’ve just got no gas in the tank. Have a good … Continue reading The WPT is Partied Out
Howdy, friends. This is the last thing I have to do before clocking out for the holiday, so you will excuse me if I’m brief. I am continuing to work my way through a list of tropical birds I found … Continue reading The WPT Heads for the Woods
Howdy, friends. I’m back from my break and want to extend my sincerest thanks to Uvular for his great work writing WPT headers in my absence. Check them out if you haven’t yet, they are worth a read. This week’s … Continue reading The WPT Clears the Dance Floor
Howdy, friends. I have put up 158 headers since, I believe, the summer of 2022 and I need a break. I’m really enjoying learning about birds with you all, and I of course love hearing about how much folks are … Continue reading The WPT is Going on Hiatus
Howdy, friends. This week’s bird follows on from last week’s, we’ve got ourselves another redstart. The American redstart is a truly tiny warbler that breeds in large swaths of the US and Canada. It winters in southern California as well … Continue reading The WPT Puts a Candle in the Window
Howdy, friends. This week’s bird came to me from …somewhere. Between music festival weekend and the resulting crush at work because I had the temerity to take some leave, my brain still isn’t quite up to speed. Anyway, let’s do … Continue reading The WPT Sings a Duet
Howdy, friends. I wasn’t able to put together a new header for you this week. However if it helps, I spent the evening cooking in my pajamas while listening to Amy Winehouse. I promise to be back next week with … Continue reading The WPT Made Enough for Everyone
Howdy, friends. This week your fearless host is going to another weekend bluegrass festival, so I thought we would talk about a bird that makes Appalachia its home during part of the year. Entirely by chance, I happened to pick … Continue reading The WPT Rolls Away the Dew
Howdy, friends. This week we continue our exploration of the barbets, although there was so little to be found about this week’s subject that I might need to switch things up or start combining species. This week’s bird is the … Continue reading The WPT is Low on Facts
Howdy, friends. We are continuing our impromptu tour of the barbets with another subject that is enchantingly colorful but about which information seems mercifully scarce. I don’t know about you all, but my life just doesn’t want to slow down … Continue reading The WPT is Flamboyant and Chunky
Howdy, friends. Continuing our study of barbets, this week we are talking about the little-studied but exceptionally colorful red-headed barbet. This bird lives in humid montane forests and forest edges in Costa Rica, Guyana, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. … Continue reading The WPT is on a Barbet Kick
Howdy, friends. This week we are continuing our barbet-related journey by covering a bird that came up last week. The red-vented bulbul is not a barbet, but it does steal berries which coppersmith barbets will collect for their mates while … Continue reading The WPT is Cute and Invasive
Howdy, friends. Although this week was beset by sickness in the Killsock household, I promised a new bird and a new bird you shall have. We’re all ok, we just ended up taking four sick days this week between the … Continue reading The WPT Likes to Sit with Friends
Howdy, friends. I’m hosting some family this weekend and neglected to put together anything for this header. I promise to be back next week with a corker of a barbet. Have a good weekend, enjoy the holiday if you’re in … Continue reading The WPT Lost Track of Time
Howdy, friends. I hope everyone is doing well, although I know we are all concerned about the state of the world. This week’s bird is the double-toothed barbet, which I saw while writing last week’s header and figured we could … Continue reading The WPT Snacks on Guac
