This BIRD giveaway has been a blast, what with the bird limericks, birding site suggestions, and of course, the six scintillating essays in praise...

My day Saturday was spent gulling the Niagara River, a most gull-friendly spot, especially in early winter. Three species were plentiful: Bonaparte’s Gull, Herring...

Have you ever really stopped and really watched a group of House Sparrows? So many birders (too many perhaps) ignore these small, but really...

what’s next, lions and lambs? Sharon the Birdchick has the amazing video of a crow mothering a kitten. Seriously, check it out.

Handsome, yet seemingly modest, the Wood Duck is a bird each and every one of us should admire.  It represents the beauty and wonder...

What happened? Our BIRD: The Definitive Visual Guide giveaway has been going so well, swimmingly in fact. Then suddenly, the river of stupendous submissions...

are erupting from the far north in serious numbers. Matt Medler of the Boreal Songbird Initiative has the details on eBird.

In my post about the pelagic trip I took on Sunday I mentioned a jaeger that was spotted, a jaeger that was initially (and...