Though spring migration brightens birders’ days with its colorful and singing birds after the long, cold winter I prefer the fullness of fall’s migration. Not...

As passerine migration peters out and thoughts turn to what birds will show up to stay the winter the only wood-warbler left in any...

Autumn is a season of transitions and migrations, a slow descent from summer’s heat to winter’s cold. Sometimes blustery and rainy, sometimes warm and...

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s...

Every spring the wood-warblers come north bedecked in breeding finery and every autumn they head back south again in more muted colors. The trickle...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns....

Labor Day weekend has passed, the kids are back in school, and it is now (un)officially autumn in the United States no matter how...

Both of the kinglet species of North America are known as fast-moving, frenetic, and friendly little creatures, that is, if one doesn’t mind risking...