Change is in the air, isn’t it? All around the world, satisfaction subsides as an inevitable restlessness sets in...

I recently took a walk off-trail at Papscanee Island in Rensselaer County, New York, taking advantage of deer trails...

It’s March and most birders over here are eagerly  anticipating the arrival of the first spring migrants from whichever...

Sometimes a species just stops you in your tracks.  So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, male Scarlet Tanager...

As regular readers of 10,000 Birds already know, I am enamored of my Queens list. So when a Red-headed...

In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood...

Things you may not know, but should: 1.) There is an International Festival of Owls. 2.) They give out...

If I see either of two things I officially declare that spring has sprung. One of them, my first...