Last week I was out on the Cohoes Flats looking at shorebirds, hoping to find something good. Both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs were around...

Our excursion to Jamaica Bay’s East Pond during the 2nd Annual Shorebird Festival this past weekend was certainly instructive, yet it was hardly the...

Science should be part of a well-balanced life, which makes Balancing Life a fitting home for the eighty-seventh edition of Tangled Bank.

The birding blogosphere is abuzz with Common Nighthawk migration. Read about them or view pictures of them here, here, here, here or here.

Earlier this month I found and photographed this spider in my grandmother’s backyard. I finally got around to trying to figure out what it...

A new study published in the ornithological journal Ibis has uncovered that for the vast majority of bird species, there are more males than...

As Mike nicely detailed in his post the two of us spent most of Sunday morning on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife...

September 2 is International Rock-Flipping Day. Mark your calendars! Dave Bonta has the details.