If you live on any decent-sized landmass anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, chances are waxwings occasionally wing your way. Waxwings are dapper passerine birds...

Though Cedar Waxwings are known for their preference for eating fruit, they are actually also accomplished flycatchers. Daisy and I had the great pleasure...

Have the summer doldrums gotten you down as much as they have me? Well, don’t fret, look for shorebirds! Though they may be indistinct...

It may be mid-summer now, but hawkwatch season is right around the corner. Time to start brushing up on hawks, eagles, falcons, and vultures!...

One of the most persistent myths in the annals of avifauna has to be the prohibition on handling even the most imperiled chick or...

Years of building, then burning giant, flammable wooden chickens gets one to wondering about the magical multiformity of the world’s most popular poultry. Farms...

If I have some time to spare I like to take back roads from place to place. Not only does this allow me to...

Since I decided in June to make this year as big a birding year as possible in New York State I have been putting...