Early this year Broome received an exceptional amount of rain as a result of tropical cyclone activity and the highways going north and south...

Every person’s calendar includes both busy seasons and fallow periods. Our calendar–the birding calendar–has just shifted into overdrive. In fact, some might argue that,...

The Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) visits my home every year about this time. Of course the males come first to establish territory. According to Macauley...

Another weekend, another example of how volatile weather patterns have become. For example, we in Rochester have been assured that Wednesday will reach 80...

One of the delights of the south coast of Western Australia are the beautiful blue seas and squeaky white sand. We have miles of...

Believe it or not, migration has really arrived. Just about any part of the world in which birds move in response to seasonal signals...

In New York, by the third weekend in April one expects to be awash in wood-warblers, overwhelmed by orioles, and generally boggled by birds...

Don’t freak out, but even the most frost-rimed regions in the Northern Hemisphere have noticed subtle signs of spring. Such seasonal signifiers include but...