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...

The last Great Auk in Britain was executed as a witch, or so the story goes. Perhaps executed is not quite fair – there...

On August 5, 1985 three of the last nine wild condors soared close overhead as I stood, awestruck, in the foothills above San Bernardino,...

One of the most difficult of all things to endure for a crow, a raven, a wolf, or a human is to feel alone...

I was in Plattsburgh, NY, for work, minding my own business and walking across SUNY-Plattsburgh’s campus. Bird calls, familiar bird calls: Pine Grosbeaks. Of...

After my last adventure in the high hills of western Albany County I got an email from Christine, the birder who found my year...