Sometimes an easy bird can become difficult to identify.  Such was the case with the molting bird below, a species that has crossed my...

Is it summer yet? Oh, technically it’s still summer you say (or winter, depending on your hemisphere!) That’s right, this is the last official...

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...