This is an update for the combined yearlist compiled by the beat writers at 10,000Birds. The list is becoming big and cumbersome and difficult...

First: Dream about it As a teenager in Yugoslavia, I used to buy National Geographic in secondhand bookshops. Fascinated with New York’s Jamaica Bay,...

What a weekend, right? All my favorite birders were out at festivals, doing Big Days, or just racking up scores of awesome birds in...

These seasons of transition make for exciting birding. Best of all, your birds next weekend may be even better than what this weekend offered....

I don’t know which legislative branch to appeal to, but there ought to be a law that mandates life birds on a birder’s birthday....

Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide by Sébastien Reeber is an exhaustively comprehensive reference book that is sure to bring...

Back in 2012 when I made my first foray to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I put up back-to-back posts featuring up-close-and-personal...

My first sight of Greater Scaup for 2016 was in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, not in World’s Fair Marina, Queens, N.Y., twelve minutes...