In the final version of Walt Whitman’s famed poetry collection Leaves of Grass – the “Deathbed Edition” – there is a poem dedicated to the Magnificent...

Everyone likes ducks, right?  If you want to see some great images of ducks check out Lloyd Spitalnik’s latest blog post, A Month of Ducks....

I never would have thought that a film that focused entirely on North American sparrows could be so delightful.  But the new second edition...

The massive flocks of Sandhill Cranes that stop over in Nebraska on their way north are becoming a bigger and bigger tourist attraction.  Tourists...

The national bird of Sweden is the Blackbird Turdus merula, otherwise known as the Common Blackbird or Eurasian Blackbird, though, of course, in Sweden...

The typical woodpecker, with its coloration of black, white, and red, is ingrained into our brains as birders.  We all have our familiar species...

After spending the early morning on Saturday birding at Alley Pond Park I was happy with having seen my first Eastern Phoebe of the...

Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches...