Gideon B. Smith of Baltimore, Maryland, was not really a birder.  Nor was he an ornithologist.  He was into...

We birders birders on the eastern half of the continent are quite familiar with the ubiquitous Northern Parula, whose...

We birders north of Mexico used to have a parrot to call our own, a sun-faced, spike tailed jewel...

I think most of us in North America have come to the somewhat disappointing conclusion that fall migration is...

When I was a kid, my dad called them “flying stoagies”, something he picked up from an old ornithology...

There was a time, a few years back, when I had some really good luck getting on a run...

I’ve been birding for nearly 2/3 of my life and, until this past weekend, I’d never even sniffed a...

The verdant Appalachian Mountains, North America’s concerned forehead, stretch from the northern parts of Georgia all the way to...