Snowy Owls are iconic birds. You rarely find a person – birder or non – who doesn’t want to take a good long look...

Torrent Ducks are the thrill-seekers of the avian world. Very few birds – or animals for that matter – would plunge head-first into the churning...

Become a birder and you’re suddenly a litterateur, too.  It’s not much of a selling point, I suppose, but how else to explain the...

During my time in Florida I only saw two birds on nests, which is not terribly surprising considering that I was there at the...

Yee-haw! The New York Football Giants have won the Super Bowl for the second time in 4 years. Not too shabby! Not only does...

Okay, I meant to write an entertaining post. I honestly did. But I have been sick with different kinds and forms of cold since the...

This week we were very lucky to have the third record of a Great Frigatebird for Broome. We had seen one of the other...

Richard Fried spent 2011 doing a New York State Big Year and managed to top the record of 350 species which was only set...