Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Pigeons get no respect. More reviled than perhaps any other species for the mess they make, their copious poop, and…

We here in New York City (and in much of the northeastern United States) are dealing with a pretty major…

After a Barnacle Goose was found in Brooklyn yesterday we Queens birders got jealous. Can you blame us? Anyway, you…

Canada Geese are a nuisance. They poop everywhere, they are far too common, they take down airplanes. Birders tend to…

Like many birders I am cursed with a job. Considering the economic times we live in that is probably not…

While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its paces,*…

Queens, NY, March 2010 For some reason, maybe because of the heroic effort I have made of late to get…

Flushing Meadows Corona Park, March 2010 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus is a much-maligned and persecuted creature.  Like cormorants and shags…

Though they have a world-wide distribution and can be found on every continent except Antarctica, Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia is a bird that…

It is not every day that the beginning of a birding outing consists of calling 911, but that is how…