No, this has nothing to do with my soon-to-be-born boy.  As a birder, I sometimes go far out of my way to see birds. ...

This past Sunday morning, as I have mentioned in my last two posts, was the Queens County Bird Club‘s field trip to Kissena Park. ...

On the recent Queens County Bird Club field trip to Kissena Park in search of migrating sparrows, field birds, and whatever else might cross...

It had been over a week since the bird was first seen and nearly a week since it was first identified.  What bird am...

The Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis, the only species of the genus Passerculus, is the Rodney Dangerfield of sparrows in that it gets no respect. ...

…though this one ended much less heroically than the “Miracle on the Hudson.”  Who would have thought that a single sparrow getting on board...

Researchers that mounted “bird cams” on Black-browed Albatross have discovered some albatrosses actively follow Killer Whales, possibly to feed on food scraps.  The research...

As was already stated in the post about tracking down and watching the Roseate Spoonbill, I spent Sunday birding at Brigantine, or, more properly,...