The Big Year was alright.  It was neither horrible nor outstanding, neither fully factual nor completely made-up, neither completely engaging nor totally alienating.  I...

It was a gusty weekend in New York City and environs, with fall finally feeling like fall is supposed to feel.  Sparrows have almost...

Though it was pretty warm for an October morning when I spotted this bird at Fort Tilden, Queens, it was fluffed up as if...

Despite regularly hearing their bubbling song emanating from undergrowth and the fact that they are widespread and common I have never managed to get a really...

No, I haven’t sold my soul to Rupert Murdoch but I was quoted a couple of times in a New York Post article about...

Thanks to a $2.68 million federal grant, farmers in California’s Glenn and Colusa Counties will be managing the water levels of their fields to...

Rick Wright has a post with a collection of quotes from reviewers of The Big Year that doesn’t exactly put birding in a positive...

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