Some weekends are sublime and others mundane. Obviously, we cannot survive one transcendent weekend after another, but this stretch of late winter seems to require...

I had no idea that migration predictions were so accurate!

While green is rather common color in avian plumage, it rarely attains the flamboyance of a parrot’s chartreuse or the emerald of a hummingbird....

As I have done all too infrequently of late I spent almost an hour yesterday at Forest Park’s waterhole where intrepid Queens birders feed...

One of the most common ducks that you see in Broome are the Plumed Whistling-Ducks and they are exactly that! They have beautiful plumes...

Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a marvel of modernist poetry. It is only 246 words long, divided into thirteen...

The Roseate Spoonbill lives up to its name, spectacularly. The bird is, after all, roseate, and, not only that, but it has a big...

Over much of North America, the Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis is more than just common.  Rather, it could be considered the aythyian background noise against...