Hi friends.  I had jury duty this week, and didn’t get a chance to write this week’s header at work like I usually do.  I made it through vior dire and was seated, but will have to come back next … Continue reading The WPT is Mistaken for an Eagle

Hi folks. Personal and professional commitments got the better of me this week and I wasn’t able to put together any new birds. I do have what I hope is a helpful quote, though. Maya Angelou said “I can be … Continue reading The WPT Phones One In

Hi, friends.  I hope you are taking care of yourselves and each other.  This week our subject is the silver-beaked tanager.  Like last week’s bird, it lives in large parts of South America, and I’m just going to paste from … Continue reading The WPT is Common and Conspicuous

Good day, friends.  This week’s bird is the gray-lined hawk, and boy, is it.  Mature birds are up to 61cm (24in) in length, weigh about 475 grams or 16.8 oz on average and are positively festooned with gray and white … Continue reading The WPT Picks a High Perch   

Hi friends.  This week we’re continuing down the list of interesting looking birds I found on an ecotourism website.  Our subject is the bearded bellbird, whose distinguishing feature aside from the male’s namesake beard is that it appears to be … Continue reading The WPT is a Mood

Hi, everyone.  Our bird this week is the turquoise tanager.  I believe we covered the very literally named multicolored tanager in an earlier header.  This bird is very pretty, and I wanted to share even though I wasn’t able to … Continue reading The WPT is too Obscure for a Cute Title    

Hi friends. I was sick most of this week, so please enjoy selected images of previously covered birds. I’ll be back next week with an all-new entry. Be good to each other and yourselves. Continue reading The WPT 2-8-25

Howdy, friends.  I know its rough out there, so it is my pleasure to bring you a brief respite with some pretty birds.  This week’s bird is the Trinidad Motmot.  One of the largest motmots, it is native to Trinidad … Continue reading The WPT is Featured on the Sawbuck

Hi everyone, lets get into it.  The bird this week is the Eurasian blackcap, a common and widespread kind of warbler.  It lives in large chunks of Europe as well as Africa, and some of these birds will migrate within … Continue reading The WPT is Compelled to Migrate

Howdy, friends.  Today’s bird is the Lear’s macaw or indigo macaw.  The bird is named after poet, author and illustrator Edward Lear, who as a young teen in 1830, published a book  including drawings of animals he had seen in … Continue reading The WPT is Full of Nuts

Hi, friends.  Our bird this week is the great blue heron, which I really want to write with a comma after “great.”  Befitting its name, it is the largest heron in north America.  The great blue heron has a very … Continue reading The WPT Eats Anything in Sight

Hi, WPT. I didn’t get a ton of time off in the last couple of weeks, so I took a day and a half off at the end of this one to sit around. As a result, please enjoy this … Continue reading The WPT Says New Year, New Emu

Howdy, friends.  I hope everyone who celebrated or is currently celebrating a solstice-adjacent festival had/is having a good one as the case may be.  Your fearless WPT host flew back home on the 25th, having agreed to work the 26th, … Continue reading The WPT Finally Circles Back to Feral Hogs

Hello, friends.  Our bird this week is the Great Potoo, a relative of the frogmouth we learned about a few weeks ago.  Like the frogmouth, it has large eyes, a broad mouth, and an uncanny ability to blend in with … Continue reading The WPT Strikes in the Night

Howdy friends.  This week’s bird is the shoebill or shoebill stork.  This vaguely threatening looking bird was long thought to be related to storks on account of how it really looks like one, but genetic testing recently revealed it is … Continue reading The WPT Hunts by Lurking

Howdy, friends.  This week’s bird is the grey crowned crane.  This bird has a dizzying array of AKAs I will not transcribe here, because frankly none of them are funny.  The gray crowned crane is found throughout Africa, especially in … Continue reading The WPT Joins in the Dance

Hi folks. Nothing to say today, too full of turkey and stuffing and other stuff. I hope all who celebrate had a peaceful Thanksgiving and I wish you all a good weekend. Continue reading The WPT is in a Food Coma

Howdy, friends.  I hope you are all well.  Avoiding the news has really improved my mental health, but I do miss you all.  Going from hanging out all day, every day for the better part of eight years to not … Continue reading The WPT Just Needs Your Hair

This week’s bird is the tawny frogmouth, which was suggested by a friend from work.  The frogmouth is native to most of Australia and Tasmania and is very adaptable to a wide range of circumstances and biomes.  This broad habitat … Continue reading The WPT is Not an Owl, Thank You for Asking

This week’s bird is the blue-footed booby.  This small, hilariously named bird is native to tropical and subtropical islands on the west coast of North and South America, from the Gulf of California down to Peru.  About half of all … Continue reading The WPT Finally Works Blue

The bird this week is the satin bowerbird.  It is so named because males build a bower, or little enclosure, as part of their mating display.    Male bowerbirds are uniformly black with purple eyes, females have bright blue eyes.  … Continue reading The WPT Builds a Courtship Fort