The big Snowy Owl irruption this year has finally reached New York City with the sighting of a single bird on Hoffman Island. When...
I enjoy digiscoping–using a digital camera with my spotting scope to get photos of birds. It’s changed quite a bit over the years. Originally...
The City Birder, Rob Jett, was recently assaulted repeatedly by a thuggish House Sparrow that wanted his cookie. Oh, the humanity!
I often poke fun at listers I perceive as being more interested in ticks than birds. (Listing ticks I mean, I have yet to meet a...
Or so says biologist Mitch Taylor about a proposed wind farm in Ontario. While the fact that Peregrine Falcons are much more numerous then...
It is not every day that a new species of bird is described, and this definitely does not tend to happen with birds that...
We birders north of Mexico used to have a parrot to call our own, a sun-faced, spike tailed jewel called the Carolina Parakeet that...
…but think that the $45 / year cost is just too much? Well, there are two ways to get a membership in the American...
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