I have yet to meet a birder who did not consider dippers to be special. Any dipper, any continent, any birder. This special place...
Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on my upper arm… A...
When I was just a wee’ lad, in my formative birding years, I was introduced to the plight of the Western Snowy Plover. A...
Last Saturday, the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center received an adult male Red-tailed Hawk that had been found on Cornell University’s campus. The...
May 2009 After a wakeup call at highly uncivilised 3.45 am, at the crack of dawn I am sitting in a car by the...
That’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself. There’s a decent chance you’ve never even heard of it before. I hadn’t until a little...
A Pin-tailed Sandgrouse flew across the front of the hide and landed on the other side of a freshwater sluice, just a few meters...
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