Summer means different things to different communities across the world. The closer to the poles you live, the more likely you lustily embrace this...

In June, I go to Nickerson Beach, a place of nesting Common Terns, American Oystercatchers, Piping Plovers, and, later in the summer, Black Skimmers. Nickerson...

Over the past few months there has been a steady increase in the number of Glossy Ibis around the Broome area and it has...

So it turns out dogs are useless. Or at least the four dogs in the house I’m staying at in Montana showed no particular...

July can be very special time of year, but the birding rarely reaches the level of excitement our migratory months deliver. Enjoy this season...

The dog days of July, when birders desperately seek out south-bound shorebirds, odd breeding records, or anything else to keep themselves from losing their...

I am sure that the most memorable first bird sightings have a way of sticking in your head. Whether it is an endemic, a...

Last weekend we had an extended family weekend at a beach house in Wildwood, New Jersey, just north of Cape May. And while I...