The weather forecasts for this week in New York City indicate that temperatures will be dropping into the thirties on the Fahrenheit scale during...

But, apparently, some people have to be told!

Grackles are of the Icterid family, the New World family of birds that includes blackbirds, orioles, oropendolas, meadowlarks, caciques, the Bobolink, and cowbirds.  The...

…or, as his birth certificate will soon say, Desmond Shearwater Ji Won Chung-Finger (Desi for short). Desmond came into this world early this morning,...

Why does it seem that one is always reading about Avitrol killing birds other than those intended?  The latest incident, in Fort Lee, New...

Zelda is a six-year fixture in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan.  Can she make it through another Thanksgiving?  Her hordes of fans hope so!

I spent Saturday morning and into the early afternoon with my becoming-a-birder friend, Kerry, with whom I’ve birded before, birding in Queens and a...

…combine to create a disaster for birds in China’s Guangdong province.  An estimated 10,000 birds are being slaughtered every day in the province, despite...