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...

I think a nuthatch has gained access to a computer. On Easter Sunday, two days after I posted my weekend picture featuring the White-breasted...

The bird blogosphere, or at least the bird blogosphere of the north-central-and-eastern United States, has been abuzz with early-returning Tree Swallows and a late-arriving...

The nasally honking “song” of White-breasted Nuthatches is, uh, well, I had to constrain the word “song” within quotation marks, so it’s not exactly...

Well, maybe that title up there is stretching things a bit. But at least two Golden Eagles flew by west of Albany during the...

One of the most interesting aspects of knowing one’s avifauna is being able to recognize birds that don’t belong. Case in point, I received...