When a birder sees a really, really, good bird and another birder doesn’t see the bird, the first birder will often “grip off” the...

Once again this winter the Forest Park irregulars, a devoted group of birders who spend far too much time in Forest Park, are maintaining...

In a move that would have been completely unthinkable even fifteen years ago, the state of Florida has decided to permit the capture of...

A bird’s crop is an expandable “muscular pouch near the gullet or throat.”  It is used to store excess food for later digestion.  Essentially...

10,000 Birds Quizmaster Jory Langner got himself interviewed for an AP article on the new BirdsEye app for the iPhone and is now quoted...

I’m not making light of the forced separation of eastern European countries from western Europe during the Cold War, but it turns out that...

A third visit to the vacant lot in Queens with the lingering vagrant Ash-throated Flycatcher was the charm on Sunday.  Thanks to Danny and...

On 22 November, an Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens was seen in an unassuming and overgrown vacant lot in Queens next to the Aqueduct/North Conduit...