It has been cold and it has been windy! This may well seem an odd statement from the tropics, but it is true. When...

Anna’s Hummingbird is resident in California, up through Oregon and into Washington and during the colder months will certainly be the most frequently seen hummer in the...

One of these sentiments is a lie. • Birds are beautiful. • Birds are fascinating. • Birds are always too close, prancing around resplendent...

The magical month of May draws to a close, leaving all good birds ensconced in their breeding territory and getting down to the business...

Now that landbird migration is largely done here in the northeastern United States we birders have to have something on which to focus our...

Sure it is a Plain Titmouse, or at least it used to be. The Plain Titmouse (Parus inornatus) was split and reclassified in 1997...

While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its paces,* I was entertained by...

so, while everyone else in the world was hanging out with the Kirtland’s Warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii) on the beach at Magee Marsh last week,...