A recent visit to Jamaica Bay didn’t offer up the hoped-for and previously-reported White-faced Ibis, a bird that I have still not seen in...

Monday morning a Prothonotary Warbler was reported in Central Park.  I, of course, had to be at work all day, but did manage to...

Haven’t you always dreamed of birding in Panama? I have for far too long, and now I’m finally going to visit. Care to join...

While I’ve long been aware of the existence of at least seven heavens, their distinguishing features, like those of the fabled seven seas, have always been...

Sunday morning, early, I left my house and made way via bus and train to Jamaica Bay, the premiere birding destination in Queens, where...

Looking back on it, I still cannot believe how action-packed my second day in Ecuador was. As dawn broke, I admired killer cloudforest birds...

Now that Daisy and I have a child our number of visits upstate have lessened dramatically.  The thirty-minute subway ride to Manhattan followed by...

My job, union job that it is, is lousy with holidays.  Our contract is solid enough that we get Good Friday off – even...