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Summer, by which I mean true summer and not just that fallow period after spring migration subsides, is finally upon us. In many parts of the world, summer means shorebirds, a prospect that inspires equal parts excitement and trepidation. This loose organization of sandpipers, phalaropes, lapwings, plovers, oystercatchers, stilts, and avocets represents a little more [...]

Welcome to the first anniversary edition of I and the Bird! What a magnificent year this has been. Nearly 150 bloggers from across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia have come together on a biweekly basis to present the very best in wild bird web writing. As a group, we have observed thousands of birds [...]

Patrick of The Hawk Owls’ Nest tagged me with his intriguing, yet entertaining 10 Most Wanted Birds Meme. This meme works like all the rest: Post a list of the 10 species that you’d most like to see. You can limit it to a geographic area or cover the whole world. Tag a few people [...]

It doesn’t seem that long ago that I visited Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, but in fact, it’s been a month since my failure to find the errant Fulvous Whistling-Ducks. Yesterday, my goal was to locate birds that actually belonged at Jamaica Bay, at least for the current season. Corey, known around here as Bad Birdwatcher [...]