(Check out Part 1 here) The city can be a tough place to make a living but San Francisco offers raptors a number of...

We’re heading into the third weekend of November, which every year (so far) is followed by the fourth weekend of November. If you live...

Radiation is funny. Not funny ha ha, but rather, funny strange. The health effects of radiation are not at all simple, and in fact,...

I travel for birding. A lot.  I’m about to head out to the Hula Valley Bird Festival and as I’m packing, I thought I...

Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again to one of my...

I have said it before and I will say it again – I love getting to Jamaica Bay at the end of a day...

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. That most dreaded of disappointments. The dip. For those that might not fully comprehend,...

The Pied-billed Grebe,  a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane. Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience,...