Mark Vance took advantage of the Razorbill invasion of Florida to get this video of a Razorbill swimming in crystal clear water. You always...

Razorbills (Alca torda) have invaded the coastal waters of Florida on an unprecedented scale this December of 2012. To put this invasion into perspective,...

I love puffins.  Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of...

Though it may sound like Dick Cheney’s fondest dream – putting fifty-plus fanatics on a boat for eight hours in the Atlantic Ocean in...

The last Great Auk in Britain was executed as a witch, or so the story goes. Perhaps executed is not quite fair – there...

When one is doing a Big Year in New York one must go on pelagic trips. As many as possible. Because I wasn’t doing...

For some people, the idea of waking up before dawn to board a boat plying icy winter waters for distant views of ambiguous seabirds...