Since last Sunday a rare-for-North America Western Reef Heron has been alternately frustrating and rewarding birders from the Empire State and beyond as it...

My first sign something was wrong while I scanned the East Pond of Jamaica Bay during my long day’s birding last Thursday was a...

You’ve probably already read about our trip to see the Bicknell’s Thrush here, here and here but you might want to see some great...

After a decent night’s sleep the intrepid gang of four awakened in the dark once again, hoping to top the previous day’s birding adventure....

Just like butterflies, I honestly don’t know much about dragonflies. They look cool, they don’t bite people except maybe if you are handling them,...

It was somewhere around the twelfth hour of birding the Adirondacks this past Saturday that it struck me: birders are insane. I had been...

Last year a Western Reef Heron was spotted in Maine and New Hampshire, last week one was spotted in New Jersey, and today one...

I’m just back from a weekend’s birding in the Adirondack Mountains and St. Lawrence County and I am absolutely exhausted and it will take...