This will be a brief post. I write this shortly after getting home from Florida, my four-year old just fell asleep, and I am...

My part of the world and many others still anguish under the icy rule of the polar vortex. What good, though, is a polar...

The Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) complex is one of the most abundant and widespread representatives of the New World warbler family in North America,...

At this time of year in Broome there are often Swinhoe’s Snipe present at the Poo Ponds, but they are elusive and they did...

There are birds more prized by North American birders than the Great Gray Owl, but not many*. This huge ghost of the far north...

The Bible assures us in Ecclesiastes that there is nothing new under the sun. I beg to differ and concur, as usual, with the more...

This weekend, S. and I were counting waterbirds along the Danube and stumbled upon that Great Black-backed Gull that I told you about before...

I’m currently in one of my favorite states: exhausted (maybe even a tiny bit tipsy) in a hotel room sorting through mountains of bird...