I sort of feel it’s sort of my duty, as the 10,000 Birds beat writer covering the southern tier of the continent, to be...

Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond.  The...

This time of year we birders are all about firsts.  The slow return of breeding birds to the higher latitudes has every one of...

Over-wintering hummingbirds have been a staple of birding in the southeast United States for the last 30 years or so, and in my state...

By the end of February, the American Woodcocks at Mason Farm near Chapel Hill have been calling on territory for the better part of...

Become a birder and you’re suddenly a litterateur, too.  It’s not much of a selling point, I suppose, but how else to explain the...

On and off for the last several months I’ve been working on a personal project to enter a massive amount of old bird records...

My name is Nate.  And I keep county lists. I realize that this admission tars me as the most obsessive and compulsive among a...