Though they have a world-wide distribution and can be found on every continent except Antarctica, Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia is a bird that is not often spotted...

The Management are out of the office this week and in the absence of adult supervision, the beat writers have been running amok. The...

…at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge anyway.  The famed East Pond, where so many wonderful shorebirds have shown, had issues with its draining system this...

Back when we used to run the 10,000 Birds ID Clinic (as opposed to just answering lots of e-mails about bird identification!), we received...

Perfect weeks like the hot (but not too hot) one we’ve just enjoyed here in western New York remind me how good summer is...

On a recent visit to Cape May Point State Park in search of an elusive Purple Gallinule I did not find my quarry but...

Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks.  If “The greatest prayer is patience,”...

If you have birded for any length of time you know the nightmare scenario.  You are far from any kind of facility where you...