After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City....

Set near the idyllic Atlantic coast, the Maine Audubon Center was sunny and bright on a hot, weekend afternoon. I was visiting with my...

Sandy terrains are at their best during spring migration and this is the off season for such habitats. July is that boring period after...

Birders concerned with ticking off bird species from a list in North America already know all about the AOU Supplement. For folks who  don’t...

New Orleans. The Big Easy. NOLA. There’s no doubt that it is one of the most famous cities in the south, and I spent...

When I was a kid, I used to spend all summer on Kennebago Lake in Maine. My siblings and I would swim, hike, read,...

The irony of birding in tropical forest is that although there are literally hundreds of bird species, a pretty high percentage of them are...

On Sunday, 5 June, word of Jay McGowan finding a Gargeney at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in western New York State hit the listservs....