Late winter, or second winter, or whatever you want to call it, continues its slow march into March. A week ago, a classmate eagerly...

Marabou Storks are ugly/lovely. They have character. They are unmistakeable. I won’t expend too much energy trying to describe them… I’ll just let the...

The waterfront of Brooklyn on either side of the Verrazano Bridge is the best place in New York City to see Purple Sandpipers. Every...

Feel the damp scent of spring (or the spicy tang of autumn for those of you on the austral side of the Earth) in...

Though it took place in a zoo the video below definitely shows some wild behavior. If you don’t want to see a bird killed...

I’ve been traveling for the last little while, a trip down south on business followed by another throughout Nunavut. The logistics of traveling in...

Why would I call these beautiful woodpeckers the “clowns of the avian world?” Besides the facial features of the Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) appearing...

On a visit yesterday after work to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn I happened across this female Red-breasted Merganser that I initially thought was...