In mid-October, the Cape May City Council voted unanimously to amend a beach management plan keep their Trap, Neuter and Release (TNR) program for...

The Pochard is a diving duck of Eurasia, similar to the North American Redhead and Canvasback. Somehow, despite having visited several good locations like...

You had to know that I wouldn’t be able to resist doing this post for long. Great Tits and Blue Tits are common wherever...

Pablo Picasso famously boasted, “I do not seek. I find.” Arrogant gasbag though he was, Picasso certainly described the dream of birders everywhere. Delving...

After the long drive from Berlin, made longer by the difficulties I encountered with my rented Mercedes’ navigation system (long story, but a cool...

Mason and I, in the course of running errands, dropped in as we often do at Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers. Last month, Tibbetts...

Brian presents some outstanding ecology blogging (on Blog Action Day no less) over at Laelaps, one of the newest arrows of reason in the...

Like every other specialized activity, the noble pursuit of bird watching has accumulated its own collection of jargon, slang, and scientific vocabulary. Fortunately, there’s...