Now is the time to take one last look at the birds that have gotten us through the winter....

Ah, spring is here (at least on my side of the world.) Rather than wax with my usual eloquence...

The most mystical birds we all long to see and know well are most often the most difficult to...

Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to...

For far too long there has been a bird that North American birders have mocked, derided, persecuted, hated, and,...

New York City, June 2008 The title of this post pretty much says it all. A couple of weeks...

This time of year we birders are all about firsts.  The slow return of breeding birds to the higher...

Whoo-hoo! It is now, on 20 March 2012, spring!  Take that, southern hemisphere! Here in New York it has...