When they say that you can’t go home again, the proverbial They are usually talking about the fact that people change. Maybe you’ve changed;...

Birds have no boobs. Although it might look like they could have a pair or two lurking beneath all those chest feathers, they actually...

This spring I have probably had more in-your-face wood-warblers than I have ever had before. I am not sure exactly why but I am...

I love babblers, and whether you treat them as a single family or several (and I understand the jury keeps getting called back on...

Bird Navigation is an amazing, mysterious thing. For years, birds have outsmarted scientists over this issue, mainly I think because people looking into navigation...

Earlier this month I had stopped at Forest Park for a quick, late-morning, visit as we birders in Queens tend to do, especially in...

In spring migration most of the attention that birders pay to birds is given to males. There are two basic reasons for this. First,...

We birders seem to keep our own arcane calendar, with weeks and months symbolized not by numbers but rather by avian avatars. Each phenological...