Apologies in advance for the ridiculous amount of yawns that reading this post will engender. (Our first victim appears to be the Ring-billed Gull above,...

Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales...

The Brazilian Pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius) is widespread in south and central Florida. The sequence of events in the establishment of this exotic tree is...

I have backlogs of bird news to wade through for you, but couldn’t help singling out this spectacular story. There’s nothing earth-shatteringly newsy here,...

On Saturday morning I was exploring the newly-mowed Edgemere Landfill, one of my favorite birding spots in Queens, enjoying birds like Eastern Meadowlarks and...

Well maybe it’s just a Brown Creeper on a wall. But that’s still interesting, right? Right? Fine. It’s not anywhere near as interesting as one...

A good friend of my mother’s back in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, is having a problem. She and her coworkers have had...

The overall perception by birders and naturalists is that a visit to the rainforest of South America will yield a long bird list, and...