The Great Egret is a great bird. With a dagger attached to a head that has glaring eyes and distance from body as its...
The Spruce Grouse population in New York State is shrinking to near oblivion and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is on the case....
On a recent visit to Cape May Point State Park in search of an elusive Purple Gallinule I did not find my quarry but...
Click here to see a video of a cartoon bird singing The Star Spangled Banner. Or don’t. Either way is fine by me.
There are three species of waterfowl that birders in most of the eastern United States are going to encounter on almost any birding outing...
…The talons went in through the helmet.” Or so says cyclist Charlie Newhouse, one of many victims of a Swainson’s Hawk that is vigorously...
Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks. If “The greatest prayer is patience,”...
Black Skimmers are another of those birds, like White-breasted Nuthatches, that people can’t help but like. They have awesome bills that slice through the...
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