Monarchs. They’re practically honorary birds – beloved, much written about, rather visible and charismatic in their stripey larval form and spectacularly so as vivid...

Once autumn starts creeping in, I can’t help but think about what exotic birding location to visit when I invariably need to escape the...

Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel Wheatley and covering South...

At one point this week, I was facing the biggest Dip of my birding life. I had committed the better part of five days,...

Near the turn of the 20th century, wealthy influencer Bernard Baruch bought coastal property in South Carolina. In just a few years he had...

BIRDING WITHOUT BORDERS:  An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World.  By Noah Strycker.  Houghton Mifflin, 352 pp., $27.  ISBN 978-0-544-55814-4....

Hurricanes Irma and Maria recently caused devastating damage to the U.S. territories in the Caribbean: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Most residents...

This past Saturday, 07 October, was the day for the Queens County Bird Club Big Sit, our fourth year of counting every species we...