My first bird sighting of the new year was a raucous murder of crows, which might have seemed ominous were it not so commonplace....

After 2003, our first New Year as birders, I threw together some resolutions meant to help me become a better birder as well as...

When winter rolls around and most of our breeding birds have departed for points south, we on North America’s temperate shores turn our attention...

Seth, online bookseller extraordinaire and ally to the Core Team, brought to my attention a while back the writings of an ardent conservationist better...

Patrick of The Hawk Owl’s Nest put together a scintillating Birder Survey, one that I’ve been remiss in completing. Time to rectify that now…...

The Core Team attended a Bat Mitzvah (Mazel Tov, Jessie!) in New York’s Putnam County this weekend. The reception, which was a total blast,...

Ladies and gentlemen, fire up your feeders. Project FeederWatch for the 2006-2007 season is about to begin. Project FeederWatch is a winter-long survey of...

Some odd avian activity has been taking place at the reservoir outside my office. Double-crested Cormorants are frequent here, often in huge numbers. But...