The Vineyard Gazette has been Martha’s Vineyard’s newspaper of record for the last 157 years. While the Bird News column does not seem as...

Sara and I, collectively known as the Core Team, enjoyed some great New York City birding in November 2003. We spotted our first Hermit...

There is a great article in Wired magazine about the technological innovations being tested through an ornithological research project. The bird in question is...

One lesson any observer of the natural world learns quickly is to take nothing for granted.  Nature loves to defy all expectations. Nobody expects...

Bird watchers have come to expect nearly endless variations of a small number of familiar forms throughout the world’s 10,000 species. For example, there...

We’ve been writing about holiday gifts for birders all week, but at the end of the day, what bird watchers really want is to...

One of the inviolable truths of birding is that you cannot force the bird. Just because you’re looking for it doesn’t mean that it...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported yesterday that last winter, in West Nile virus-afflicted parts of the United States, American Crow counts dropped to...