How was your weekend? Did the New Year bring you any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird! My favorite birds...

Ecclesdown Road, a steep track that cuts through Jamaica’s lush John Crow Mountains, boasts some of the best birding in the country. On my...

This past Sunday was the Queens County Christmas Bird Count, my second living in the borough and doing the count.  We originally were scheduled...

The holiday season has finally passed and now our new year lies before us, fraught with the potential for health, happiness, and success. Will...

I have seen Desert Finches exactly once.  They were in Kazakhstan, where they belong.  Desert Finches have never been reported anywhere in the western...

How was your weekend? Did the New Year bring you any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird! My best...

New Year’s Day birding is always so much fun.  Every bird is a new bird on the year list and the year seems wide...

Over two years ago, when I was doing a New York State Big Year, one of the birds that I tried to see but...