Are you sometimes astounded when you are out with another birder who manages to hear and identify many more birds than you? Do you...
My spark bird was the Red-tailed Hawk that lives next to Central Park, the one named Pale Male I’ve always been a little embarrassed...
This is the crazy winter period, the time of Christmas Bird Count scouting, birding, counting and compiling. And then there are the activities we...
It’s depressing to contemplate that two extinct species could be summed up in a single book — but if it must be so, it...
In June 2012, I had the great fortune to visit Trinidad and Tobago in a group that included birder and artist Matthew Dodder. Matthew...
Several years ago I asked one of my birding mentors, a curmudgeon with an enviable life list, if he was a bird watcher, a...
I looked over at the calendar the other day and literally almost jumped halfway across the room. The end of 2012 – and the...
I spent the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the usual post-hurricane activities—looking for storm birds, making sure my loved ones were o.k., trying to...
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