I travel for birding. A lot.  I’m about to head out to the Hula Valley Bird Festival and as I’m packing, I thought I...

Though he destroyed more than 1,000 nests worth of chicks and eggs of the American White Pelican nearly obliterating a colony on land he rented,...

Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again to one of my...

Though Fergus O’Neill came up with a great way to use leftover campaign posters from a recent Irish presidential election – turning them into...

I have said it before and I will say it again – I love getting to Jamaica Bay at the end of a day...

Thirteen Spoon-billed Sandpipers have arrived in England after spending sixty days in quarantine at Moscow Zoo.  The birds were captured on their breeding grounds...

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. That most dreaded of disappointments. The dip. For those that might not fully comprehend,...

The Pied-billed Grebe,  a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane. Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience,...