Cherie Pittillo

Austral Thrush, Turdus falcklandii Some Chilean common names of birds are familiar to us in the US and the Yucatan Peninsula such…

How exciting to see any avian species I didn’t know existed! Plus others looked familiar to identify them to a family level…

Looking through my binoculars while enclosed in a warm car and safely tucked in from brutal winds, I spied an immature Andean…

Imagine when three puma trekkers witnessed something they had never seen in each of their seven years experience among pumas in Patagonia,…

Two ten month old puma cubs, a male and female, were finally reunited after a five day search by the mom and…

When I began photography in the olden times of slide film (can you say Kodachrome?), I concentrated on mammals, those great creatures…

Learning about waterfowl bills with tongue spikes, teeth-like ridges, and taste buds were probably a shocker in last month’s column.* I have…

Doesn’t this title sound like cooking utensils found in a kitchen? Instead I will discuss tools for food gathering by duck-like bills…

Enjoy this short photo essay of birds with “blue” plumage. While three are winging the blues, at the end is a bird…

One of my photography surprises is the ability to enlarge an image and discover something I’ve never seen. This happened when I…