by a New Yorker?!? Rich Guthrie of Albany describes his trip to the bottomland and glimpse of what may have been the Lord God...

Eerie. Sinister. Unnaturally still. These are apt descriptions for those wondrous waders, the night herons. These stout birds of the genera Nycticorax and Gorsachius...

When considering all of the benefits I’ve enjoyed from participating in various blog carnivals over the year, I wonder why every blogger doesn’t do...

the Sunday edition of the New York Times Week in Review looked at Creatures on the Knife’s Edge, including five imperiled North American bird...

with the second edition of Learning in the Great Outdoors, the carnival of environmental education.

Spring migration is sublime, like the fragrance of exotic blossoms, like the promise of health to one who has ailed for a long time....

Mike O’Connor is a syndicated avian expert and owner of the popular Bird Watcher’s General Store in Cape Cod. He’s also a very funny...

Birders, as I’ve written before, are consumers of the fruits of evolution, celebrants of the processes of natural selection and genetic drift. It may...