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I was flicking through Sibley (not as painful as it may sound, by the way) in a recent idle moment and came upon the description of Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus which concludes with the paragraph, “Nearly all North American records are of the paler mantled Britain/Iceland population [graellsii]. A few records apparently refer to [...]

Red-bellied Woodpeckers Melanerpes carolinus
Eastern North America
 
Red-bellied Woodpeckers are found in the eastern half of the United States, extending from the wooded portion of the Great Plain states to the Atlantic coast and from the Gulf of Mexico to southern portions of Ontario and northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York. Populations appear to be increasing [...]

After a couple of hours spent at Crandon Park wondering - it has to be said - where all the birds were, I decided to hop a bus down to the end of Biscayne Key for a look around Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park [BBCFSP] (which isn’t much larger than its mouthful of [...]

When I was in Miami last week, I went down to Key Biscayne hoping to get more photos of one of my favourite birds anywhere - the stunning Yellow-throated Warbler Dendroica dominica. As it turned out my camera stopped working after just thirty minutes in the field, and I didn’t actually see a Yellow-throated Warbler [...]

Palm Warbler Dendroica palmarum
Central Park, New York and Crandon Park, Miami
Despite a name redolent of balmy islands and coconuts, the Palm Warbler Dendroica palmarum winters farther north than most other warblers (primarily in the southern United States and northern Caribbean) and breeds in boggy forests - especially boggy spruce forests - across northern North America [...]