Bringing a distinctly tropical, Caribbean influence into the resident avifauna of extreme southern Florida, the White-crowned Pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala) is one of the few...
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While those to the north are busy wallowing in shorebirds of impressive diversity and numbers, we to the south sit and wait for the...
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Brown-headed Cowbirds evoke strong feelings in many birders, some of whom can’t abide a bird that lays its eggs in other birds’ nests, often...
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Mallards can be dirty ducks. Very, very, dirty ducks. And while ducks in general are known for their hybridizing ways, none are as prolific...
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Time to face facts… if you haven’t bought holiday gifts yet for the birders in you life, you are out of luck. There’s simply...
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The thaw may not have fully arrived where you live but rest assured it is coming. Unless, that is, you live in the Southern...
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It is near the end of wood-warbler migration in New York City; the hordes of Yellow-rumped Warblers have descended upon us and it has...
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Why keep a year list? This is a question we ask every year. I’m aware that some birders scorn the obsessive tabulation and parsing...
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