The Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus is an unassuming thrush to look at.  Guttatus is Latin for “speckled” and the Hermit Thrush is certainly speckled...

This unhappy-looking tar baby is covered with a green, environmentally-friendly product called Tanglefoot. It is a non-drying, sticky compound that is used to protect...

This month strikes me as the oddest April in my memory. Then again, April is always an odd month. Robert Frost certainly thought so…...

I live near a highway. All winter, I almost never went west on that road, only east, but a couple of times I did...

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, April 2010 Everyone knows that New York City is an extremely expensive place to live.  If one is...

To the north of both Cairns and the Atherton Tableland is the Daintree River, which gives the area and the small town its name....

April, while not as exciting a migratory month as May is in the northeastern United States, is still a great time of year to...

I sort of feel it’s sort of my duty, as the 10,000 Birds beat writer covering the southern tier of the continent, to be...