‘Tis the season when young birds fledge and take to the wing, or more commonly plunge to the ground where they are easy prey...

Brewery Ommegang of Cooperstown, New York has long been one of my favorite breweries. Over the past two decades – the brewery celebrated its...

Calendar spring is nearly at an end, but nature summer started a while ago. Most birders, attuned as they are to the rhythms of...

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to some of the largest assemblages of breeding seabirds in the United States. These remote islands, some more...

Most of us know all too well the bittersweet mood returning from a birding trip evokes. On the one hand, a successful adventure results...

Following on from our very wet start to 2018 it was no great surprise that we should encounter a Pied Heron around Broome on...

Dry Tortugas approximately 100 years ago. Sooties, noddies, and where to find them.   As the Caribbean’s emerald waters fell away below our seaplane,...

As one might surmise, a “toucanet” is a small toucan. Although still large enough to be a menace to nesting birds, they aren’t as...