The first rule about birding is that there are no rules for birding. Look at a bird with the intent of identifying it or...

What was the weirdest place you ever birded? Some smelly sewage ponds? Oh, don’t bother responding. A war zone? Then you are worse than me....

We are now at the tail end of our time in Australia, but I feel like we are ending it with a bang. 8...

When we began planning this trip, Cairns was immediately put on the list, as we have a very good friend, Kevan, who we have...

Late in the afternoon on Friday, 11 May, I was at work in Suffolk County. I wouldn’t get done until 10 PM. When the...

When it comes to initiatives that promote birding, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is hard to beat. The lab at Sapsucker Woods is where...

In the very back of my first bird identification field guide (Audubon, green, Eastern US) there were several blank pages. Since neither the Internet...

And the air miles, and highway miles just keep racking up.  This week finds us flying from Melbourne, Australia,  to Alice Springs, in the...