In my recent post about birding Jamaica Bay’s East Pond I mentioned a very successful Snowy Egret. It caught fish after fish after fish...

Rehabbers are all – well, almost all – connected by the internet. We join listservs so we can talk to compatriots, even if they...

Is it possible to travel too much during the summer? My typical response any season would be a resounding NO, but then again I’m...

John Mark Simmons, the co-founder of Two Birders and Binoculars, has enjoyed birding all his life and has won various birding competitions.  John Mark...

As I’ve switched over to paid corporate birding (doing bird surveys for companies that want to put up wind farms or transmission lines), I’ve...

As 10,000 Birds’ New Zealand beat writer, I sometimes should write about New Zealand birds, but today I thought I’d talk about a bird...

While those to the north are busy wallowing in shorebirds of impressive diversity and numbers, we to the south sit and wait for the...

Hot enough for you? If you’re suffering through a sweltering patch of record summer heat, you may feel much as Ralph Waldo Emerson did...