A Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius taking off from a branch in Alley Pond Park, Queens, New York, on 1 November...

Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy...

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

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

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

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

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

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