While we’re on the subject of truly sensational hummingbirds, I’d like to introduce one of the finest specimens to be found in the Greater...

One certain way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best...

So there I was at Refugio Paz de Las Aves, teetering on the edge of sanity after a barrage of insane Ecuadorean avifauna. First came the famed...

…but it is seriously funny.  By the way, anatidaephobia is the fear that “somehow, somewhere, a duck is watching you.”  It does seem unlikely...

Dear Forest Park: You have been my favorite birding destination since I moved to Queens two years ago.  The short three blocks that I...

The shortest month of the year is coming to a close and I feel like, for me, February will vanish without a trace. Too...

People are apparently cowering in their homes in a small village in England.  The cause of their fear?  A terrorist pheasant.  No, I am...

You poor suffering souls who come back repeatedly to read the dreck that I write about my assorted birding adventures will recall that last...