Bringing a distinctly tropical, Caribbean influence into the resident avifauna of extreme southern Florida, the White-crowned Pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala) is one of the few...

While those to the north are busy wallowing in shorebirds of impressive diversity and numbers, we to the south sit and wait for the...

Brown-headed Cowbirds evoke strong feelings in many birders, some of whom can’t abide a bird that lays its eggs in other birds’ nests, often...

Mallards can be dirty ducks.  Very, very, dirty ducks.  And while ducks in general are known for their hybridizing ways, none are as prolific...

Time to face facts… if  you haven’t bought holiday gifts yet for the birders in you life, you are out of luck. There’s simply...

The thaw may not have fully arrived where you live but rest assured it is coming. Unless, that is, you live in the Southern...

It is near the end of wood-warbler migration in New York City; the hordes of Yellow-rumped Warblers have descended upon us and it has...

Why keep a year list? This is a question we ask every year. I’m aware that some birders scorn the obsessive tabulation and parsing...