Naturally, I am thinking of Shakespeare’s play while the ferry approaches Helsingør’s Kronborg Castle (Elsinore). The sea is frothing with Great Cormorant and Herring...

When reports of an extremely cooperative Thick-billed Murre at Shinnecock Inlet starting coming in early last week I resigned myself to living vicariously through...

I guess we can universally agree that the colonial times were a rather selfish period of European history. There is indeed little good that...

It is now the month of love, and there are few birds I love more than the alcids. Thus, a day of murrelets and...

While on a top-secret mission, I found the following at the bottom of a box filled with Petersonania and cheaply-printed knockoff Fuertes prints. The...

Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and...

Black Guillemots in New York State have not been kind to me. First of all, one has never just shown up in front of...

Julia Zarankin is on her way to becoming a birder. In her other life, she is a writer, editor, writing coach, and lecturer to...