Short answer: The woodpecker is most likely not crazy and noshing on the house is not what the woodpecker has in mind. Woodpeckers could...
On a recent visit to Prospect Park one of the many wonderful sights was a nest belonging to a pair of American Robins in...
Birders up north are no doubt gearing up for the peak of spring migration across the eastern half of the continent. The middle of...
On a recent visit to Central Park I chanced upon a singing House Wren Troglodytes aedon and followed it back to a hole in...
I don’t know if I am just really lucky this year or more observant but I found another oddball Ruddy Duck recently. Instead of...
You have got to admire the Manx Shearwater. As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for...
SeaWorld and similar attractions that serve up cetacean entertainment to the masses don’t do that much for me. However, many of the professionals who...
The national bird of Estonia is the Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica. Of course, in Estonia the bird is not called Barn Swallow. In Estonian the...
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