Sometimes a species just stops you in your tracks.  So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, male Scarlet Tanager today at Jamaica Bay.  Now...

As regular readers of 10,000 Birds already know, I am enamored of my Queens list. So when a Red-headed Woodpecker was reported on Thursday...

In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of...

If I see either of two things I officially declare that spring has sprung. One of them, my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of the...

How would you handle the situation in which Dawn recently found herself? To me, that type of behavior is unacceptable, but let he who...

It is not every day that one gets to see a pair of Green Iguanas sunning themselves on a bush from close range.  But,...

Eastern Screech-Owls sleep all day. That makes why this bird had its head poking out of its box when we drove by it in...

Over at The Birder’s Report Larry has some really nice images of Black-necked Stilts. Check them out!