Tragically, McSweeney’s doesn’t have quite enough hard-core birders in the audience to appreciate this. But I thought you guys would! Look, you guys, I...

So it turns out dogs are useless. Or at least the four dogs in the house I’m staying at in Montana showed no particular...

It’s one thing to go birding. A long trip to a distant hot spot, a targeted species, the careful working of a patch, a...

When I was a kid I loved books like My Side of the Mountain, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Julie of the Wolves....

When I was a kid, and couldn’t travel, I thought patch birding sounded dreadfully boring. Now that I can travel, I have perversely discovered...

For most readers of this blog, Pete Dunne hardly needs an introduction. As far back as the late ’70s he’s been entertaining and enlightening...

As you might have seen mentioned previously, last weekend the illustrious Corey Finger and I broke the Queens record with our sighting of fifteen...

Last Saturday, the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center received an adult male Red-tailed Hawk that had been found on Cornell University’s campus. The...