Turkey Vulture over dandelions I must warn you that the above picture is not very indicative of the rest of the pictures on this...

Three broods, one of 11, one of 9, and one of 3, all in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs. I was wondering where all...

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,...