A critically endangered Indonesian crow, known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, has been rediscovered. Welcome back, Banggai Crow (Corvus unicolor)!

On the recent Queens County Bird Club field trip to Kissena Park in search of migrating sparrows, field birds, and whatever else might cross...

It had been over a week since the bird was first seen and nearly a week since it was first identified.  What bird am...

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Tell us about your best bird. I never made it down to Pennsylvania as anticipated so I had...

The Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis, the only species of the genus Passerculus, is the Rodney Dangerfield of sparrows in that it gets no respect. ...

As the world wafts into the heart of October, nature lovers at my latitude start paying attention to leaves. Actually, even those who foster...

…though this one ended much less heroically than the “Miracle on the Hudson.”  Who would have thought that a single sparrow getting on board...

I’ve been on record for years as endorsing David Allen Sibley’s masterwork, The Sibley Guide to Birds as the first and foremost reference guide...