Halloween weekend has passed, but the big day is yet to come. Has anyone seen any noteworthy bird costumes recently? The best bird I...

The Chukar is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all the partridges that scientists assigned to the genus Alectoris. All these...

During our cooler months, which have really come to an end, we can observe huge flocks of Brown Boobies diving into the ocean close...

This morning – 26 October 2013 – at Jacob Riis Park in coastal Queens, New York, I was very pleased to see hordes of...

Waterthrushes are birds that have frustrated me for some time. They don’t like to sit still for long and my attempts at photos are commonly...

I miss Eastern Kingbirds. It’s not that they’re not around — I’ve seen them at the National Bison Range, to name but one definitively...

As the Northern Hemisphere grows colder, one dreams of  following Flatback Turtle tracks on an Australian beach Another Halloween approaches, which bodes well for anyone...

In preparing for my first trip to see the Marvelous Spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis), I decided to read as much as I possibly could. I had...