As always when I am in the car, while Daisy and I drove to my folks’ house in Saugerties, NY, to join family for...
Christine Guarino is a serious birder in a funny hat. When she is not writing about chickadees, identifying out-of-place sparrows, or tracking down winter...
My day Saturday was spent gulling the Niagara River, a most gull-friendly spot, especially in early winter. Three species were plentiful: Bonaparte’s Gull, Herring...
Have you ever really stopped and really watched a group of House Sparrows? So many birders (too many perhaps) ignore these small, but really...
Handsome, yet seemingly modest, the Wood Duck is a bird each and every one of us should admire. It represents the beauty and wonder...
There are almost too many reasons to love Black-capped Chickadees, but I will try to elucidate just a few of the more important ones...
The last Great Auk in Britain was executed as a witch, or so the story goes. Perhaps executed is not quite fair – there...
On August 5, 1985 three of the last nine wild condors soared close overhead as I stood, awestruck, in the foothills above San Bernardino,...
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