The Vineyard Gazette has been Martha’s Vineyard’s newspaper of record for the last 157 years. While the Bird News column does not seem as...

There is a great article in Wired magazine about the technological innovations being tested through an ornithological research project. The bird in question is...

One lesson any observer of the natural world learns quickly is to take nothing for granted.  Nature loves to defy all expectations. Nobody expects...

Bird watchers have come to expect nearly endless variations of a small number of familiar forms throughout the world’s 10,000 species. For example, there...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported yesterday that last winter, in West Nile virus-afflicted parts of the United States, American Crow counts dropped to...

While driving today, I found myself amidst a playful flock of Dark-eyed Junco. I also spotted a European Starling with an amazing throat pouch...

The International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) is one of the nation’s leading authorities on oil spill response and wildlife rescue. Based in California,...

Since mid-October, hundreds of dead and dying fulmars have been found beached on California’s shoreline from Northern to Southern California. Necropsies done on five...