Silo and Roy, the famous gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo, have split up after Silo decided to take up with a...

From the department of “Now I’ve Heard Everything” comes a story that involves snipers protecting penguins. Seriously. Granted, the snipers are there to shoot...

It is time for yet another series of photos of a bird hanging out at a waterhole in Kazakhstan.  This time the Grey-necked Bunting...

Last year at the end of July I wrote a post about birding Jamaica Bay in which I complained about the bugs, the heat,...

All of the pictures here were taken at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge today.  Please leave your guesses as to what species are depicted in...

It’s been eight days since my trip on Friday, 3 July, to upstate New York to see the Mississippi Kite and I still haven’t...

I’ve finally done it!  More than a year and a half since my first foray into international birding I finally decided on a checklist,...

One tends to think of birding as an idyllic pastime.  One goes into the field, sees gorgeous creatures, identifies them, and then brags to...