Ideas, like catwalk fashions, come and go in cycles, and so even the worst scientific mistakes will one day be back in some new...

Two weeks ago I wrote a post entitled, “How do Birds get their Color?”. This got me thinking about eye color in birds. As...

There is no better place to find grasspipers in New York State than the sod farms on eastern Long Island in autumn. Buff-breasted Sandpipers,...

Anyone attuned to the roving of raptors and peregrinations of passerines is probably sporting a big smile this morning thinking about the weekend’s sightings....

It has been far too long since the last of the diabolical quizzes. And this quiz is truly diabolical. Horribly diabolical. Diabolical squared. At...

Canada Geese are a nuisance. They poop everywhere, they are far too common, they take down airplanes. Birders tend to ignore them, non-birders tend...

My rehabber friend Lisa Acton, who is with Animal Kingdom USA Wildlife Rehabilitation, picked up her phone and heard the voice of an elderly...

Do you love this time of year as much as I do? You may have to be a football-loving, bird-chasing father of schoolchildren to...