Christine Guarino! This giveaway depended on ideas of great holiday gifts for birders, of which we received many. For some inexplicable reason, the judges...

Despite what you may have heard, birders are incredibly easy to shop for. No, you may not be able to giftwrap that elusive Ivory-billed...

Christine Guarino is a serious birder in a funny hat. When she is not writing about chickadees, identifying out-of-place sparrows, or tracking down winter...

My day Saturday was spent gulling the Niagara River, a most gull-friendly spot, especially in early winter. Three species were plentiful: Bonaparte’s Gull, Herring...

Have you ever really stopped and really watched a group of House Sparrows? So many birders (too many perhaps) ignore these small, but really...

Handsome, yet seemingly modest, the Wood Duck is a bird each and every one of us should admire.  It represents the beauty and wonder...

In my post about the pelagic trip I took on Sunday I mentioned a jaeger that was spotted, a jaeger that was initially (and...

There are almost too many reasons to love Black-capped Chickadees, but I will try to elucidate just a few of the more important ones...