Duncan let me know about this fascinating article from The New York Times Magazine about the changing ecology – and population – of the...

Seth Ausubel is one of the best birders in Queens and when he is not out birding he is often in pursuit of herpetological...

Jason Kessler is back with the funniest birding movie of the year. Sh*t Birders Say delivers more laughs in 3 minutes than… well, actual birding!...

Anhinga, otherwise known as Snakebird, Water Turkey, or American Darter* – and more formally as Anhinga anhinga – is a bird I have long...

Now that late winter has eased into early spring, it seems owls are in the air. I’m hearing all kinds of owl howls, from...

As a native New Yorker, I’ve seen my share of squirrels. Our standard Sciuridae is the Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and while most...

At the end of a half-morning’s birding I stopped at the south end of the Cross Bay Bridge, just north of Jamaica Bay Wildlife...

We have just returned from a three-week trip to Sydney, which was primarily to help out where needed with a house move and to...