Did you enjoy your summer? The Autumnal Equinox may still be a few weeks away, but make no mistake: summer is over. Time to...

There might be some question as to if the birding that resulted from Hurricane Irene on Sunday, 28 August 2011, was the best birding...

It was a dark and stormy night. Turdus “Blacky” Merula sat near the trunk of the small evergreen in the backyard that was his...

On the day after the most epic day of hurricane birding I’ve ever experienced I, like quite a few other New York State birders,...

Today is International Vulture Awareness Day!  Rather than go into great detail about a variety of vultures as we have in the past, I...

I have taken refuge on the high ground as Irene batters the east coast of North America and Nanmadol swamps the Philipines, Taiwan and east...

“Self,” I said to myself, “it is Thursday. You have used up all your New York blogging material. You need something to write about.”...

Though they have a world-wide distribution and can be found on every continent except Antarctica, Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia is a bird that is not often spotted...