Not only is a fellow Queens bird blogger interviewed, but the article, by Nathan Heller, ends with this: Despite their reputation as quirky hobbyists,...

Georg Wilhelm Steller was never in the Rockies in the first place. Also, he has been dead for more than 250 years now. Many...

Here is a very quick quiz for those of you with a short attention span.  This quiz is simple, straightforward, and to the point,...

After the sheer joy of finding my own life Thayer’s Gull I made an attempt to visit the San Jacinto Wildlife Area, which is...

We’re a couple of weeks into 2011 now, so take a moment to reassess. Have you lived the last two weeks like you’d like...

Here’s a quick bit of fun for the trivially inclined. What do Gray Catbird, Chuck-will’s-Widow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rusty Blackbird and Red-bellied Woodpecker have in...

This is the last part of my Wallcreeper trilogy in which I will tell the tale of another day, the day I set out...

The Varied Thrush that I twitched back in November in Central Park is still around and even out-of-towners are appreciating it of late.  Both...