The reception of bulbuls in the ornithological world is decidedly mixed. A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and...

The southwest peninsula of Trinidad is unfortunately rarely birded by visiting birders. Most tourists historically spent their time at the northern end of the...

Pithecellobium dulce is a tree with many English names. The most common one, Manila tamarind, is wildly inaccurate, since the tree is native to...

The last weekend of winter/summer looks a whole lot like the first weekend of spring/fall. That doesn’t mean, however, that winds of change aren’t...

We have been observing the Tawny Frogmouth family again during the week at the same park in Broome. The juvenile birds are growing fast...

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2021 this morning at Idlewild Park in my home borough of Queens. My birding buddy Meryl actually...

I didn’t plan on taking such a long break away from the Birds and Booze beat, but life got in the way the last...

I recently noticed that one of our other writers had included an easy-to-use link to a birdsong recording in one of their posts. This...