Thanks to the good, generous folks at Houghton Mifflin, we had two copies of the exciting new Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North...

Though Mike has already put up a post about our Montezuma Muckrace experience so much happened during the loooong day of birding that there...

and bluebirds.  The birds I can see around New York City are great but it’s a real bummer that those birds are virtually not...

I don’t know how the weather is treating you in your neck of the proverbial woods but it’s getting chilly around here. Warm nights...

Finding a rare bird is fun.  Chasing a rare bird is fun.  Twitching a rare bird is fun.  Reporting a rare bird?  Not so...

Alas, poor Winnie! I knew her, Horatio, a Whimbrel of infinite jest… Winnie the Whimbrel, celebrated shorebird migrant, is lost and presumed to be...

When I posted a short blurb a couple of days ago about my plans to scour the south shore of Long Island in the...

September has arrived and with it, a flood of fall migrants. OK, maybe those are spring migrants on your side of the world. What...