Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) pair by Larry Jordan (click on photos for full sized images) Winter is the time to visit the National Wildlife...

President Obama has added 10 new refuges in his first term. Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to...

I’m into my second week of a brutal virus that has sapped my will to do just about anything, so I’m afraid I won’t...

The vagrant Harris’s Sparrow that had been delighting birders near Syracuse, New York, during its reliable visits to a set of feeders has been...

There are few sights more wrenching to a wildlife rehabilitator than a convulsing, lead-poisoned bird. Waterbirds eat lead shot while scouring the bottoms of...

In January 1971, two oil tankers collided under the Golden Gate Bridge, spilling more than 800,000 gallons of crude oil into the San Francisco...

Birding can be a double-edged sword, getting out birding, seeing, hearing and ‘doing’ birding is as we all know incredibly good for the soul...

New Zealand has one of the direst records of extinction is modern times, second on really to Hawaii in terms of bird species lost. I’ve written...