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...

Queens, NY, March 2010 For some reason, maybe because of the heroic effort I have made of late to get our new apartment completely...

Now is the time to take one last look at the birds that have gotten us through the winter. Both the birds that stick...

Manhattan, April 2010 In the busiest and most developed borough of New York City, Manhattan, which is what most tourists think of when they...

The data seems mixed. Jim McCormac has a good rundown and some theories.

Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping...

It’s tough to make out what species the baby bird is but it sure likes bluegrass. Lead singer Josh Williams managed to keep the...

For far too long there has been a bird that North American birders have mocked, derided, persecuted, hated, and, perhaps worse of all, ignored. ...