Bird banding (or ringing if you’re in the Old World) is considered one of the most effective ways of monitoring avian population, migration, and...

The weather forecasts for this week in New York City indicate that temperatures will be dropping into the thirties on the Fahrenheit scale during...

How was your weekend? Any good birds? (Turducken doesn’t count!) Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird! My best bird was Great...

Grackles are of the Icterid family, the New World family of birds that includes blackbirds, orioles, oropendolas, meadowlarks, caciques, the Bobolink, and cowbirds.  The...

Time to talk turkey. The fourth Thursday of November is when we in the United States observe Thanksgiving. However, anybody can take a moment...

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird! My best bird of the weekend was a...

I spent Saturday morning and into the early afternoon with my becoming-a-birder friend, Kerry, with whom I’ve birded before, birding in Queens and a...

American Thanksgiving is drawing nigh, which means that most of us in the States should embark on some aggressive pre-emptive aerobic action to burn...