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Flushing Meadows Corona Park, March 2010 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus is a much-maligned and persecuted creature.  Like cormorants and shags the world over they are hated by fishermen who blame them for decimating fish populations.  Their rather unkempt appearance at a distance does not make them a favorite of those who like their birds to [...]

There I was (I’ve been reading Thurber) on board a boat off Baja California, reveling in cormorants (three species!), Brown Pelicans, and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Which, naturally, got me to thinking about the newly erected order Suliformes, a development I mentioned in my December column, 2010′s [...]

An early morning visit to Jamaica Bay recently led to several notable sightings, but nothing could compare to the sight that awaited me as the first person of the day onto the south end of the East Pond.  A horde of Snowy Egrets stalked the shallows, forming a wall of white feathers, and those that [...]