Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration. It was...

The other night I went out to rescue a great big Red-tailed Hawk, who turned out to be a tiny little Sharp-shinned Hawk. The...

Happy Day of the Dead! Don’t panic… this is not the first day of the inexplicably-trendy Zombie Apocalypse. El Dia de los Muertos is...

The southeast tip of the Florida peninsula is not well endowed with a wide variety of sparrows in winter like the rest of the...

Warning, saucy photos of females to follow. About six years ago, my husband was chatting with a friend of ours about how we need...

Living in New Zealand is fun and all, don’t get me wrong. Sure, there are no woodpeckers here and very few places you can...

The Delmarva Peninsula juts southward towards North Carolina like the appendix of the eastern seaboard.  It’s southernmost third, given to Virginia by accident of...

As passerine migration peters out and thoughts turn to what birds will show up to stay the winter the only wood-warbler left in any...