I hate to obsess about weather, but June temperatures in New York have taken us all on a roller coaster ride with sweltering highs...

I can’t recall a year when birders were as thrilled to see the month of May pass as we all are in 2020. I...

May delivers one of those amazing times of the year when we’re too busy looking at birds to sit around talking about them. Let’s...

Having finally found a Black Vulture for my Queens list, an important tick both because it was long overdue and because it was the...

A new year, a new list. Does anyone have any special plans for the new decade? If you are not already a lister, this...

They came home exhausted. For lack of shields, they were carried on their “Helm field guides to the Birds of East Africa”. 429 species...

This last year of the twenty-teens was a monumental birding year for me. I saw 863 species of birds, bringing my life list to...

Despite last month being a record month by every measure we could think of, the cumulative total for the year had barely scraped past...