The Sunda Teal is a brown duck. This may make it very popular amongst European birders who can relate, but it doesn’t make it...

When we first arrived in Palmerston I downloaded the bike map and then looked for water bodies within the city. There have been some...

In the forests of South America, a birder is likely to cross the path of a feeding flock of brown birds represented by Woodcreepers,...

I was sorting through a large mixed flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds and European Starlings at Fort Tilden on Friday morning when Isaac Grant, the intrepid...

In honor of fall, and of the Chipping Sparrow that just smacked itself (thankfully not too hard) against my balcony window, here’s a blast...

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep...

New World vultures of the genus Cathartes (Greater Yellow-headed, Lesser Yellow-headed and Turkey Vultures) look much alike. Greater and Lesser Yellow-headed Vultures are so...

This past weekend I took a trip to the small town of Portola in Plumas county for a Northern California Audubon Council meeting hosted...