Will and I had a long evening’s birding yesterday without seeing anything particularly noteworthy.  You know it’s been a slow day when the most...

Eerie. Sinister. Unnaturally still. These are apt descriptions for those wondrous waders, the night herons. These stout birds of the genera Nycticorax and Gorsachius...

Rich Guthrie, one of the deans of Albany-area birding, posted this on the local and state listserves: Yes, out of area, but I thought...

One thing I’ve learned about birding now that I have a few years under my belt is that it is truly a group sport....

I’ve spent quite a few hours lately reading and paging through my recently arrived field guide, Birds of Europe. With a planned trip to...

Mockingbirds are members of the Mimidae family, a group of American passerines that also includes thrashers, tremblers, and New World catbirds. These stentorian songbirds,...

April 21 – 29 is National Wildlife Week. It’s also the span of the First Annual Blogger Bioblitz. If you are a blogger but...

When I got home from work today I realized that I needed to brush my cats, especially B.B., the long-haired one.  The male Northern...