Danum Valley is the finest birding location I have ever been to. … I typed the above sentence and then dared myself to defend...

Back on the last day of May I boarded a boat in Brooklyn and headed out onto the Atlantic Ocean in search of seabirds. It was...

Early June in these parts still holds the promise of late migrants but basically showcases the next couple of months of local trip lists....

All the world’s redpolls probably represent a single species, and redpolls probably look different in different places more because of environmental influences on how...

For regular readers of this website you may well think that you have seen that title before! Well, almost! Last time it was Banded...

Wouldn’t you love to enjoy birding and sunset at Lake Apopka? This is the time of year when many of us in the Northern...

In many ways the weaver family is for Africa are similar beasts to the pseudowarblers of North America (sometimes called wood-warblers). There are a...

Common Ravens have, it seems, finally nested in Manhattan, the densest metropolitan area in the nation. The photo above depicts three fledglings I encountered...