Manhattan, April 2010 In the busiest and most developed borough of New York City, Manhattan, which is what most tourists think of when they...

In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of...

One of the great compulsions shared by nearly all varieties of nerd is the desire to share the objects of our obsession with people....

It is not every day that one gets to explore Central Park with a friend, birder, and first-time visitor to the Big Apple.  It...

I first met Jacob Drucker within a month of my moving to New York City.  He was with a group of young naturalists pulling...

On a recent visit to Central Park I chanced upon a singing House Wren Troglodytes aedon and followed it back to a hole in...

I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South.  I was wondering if...

This morning dawned clear and sunny, not the weather one wants when one has committed to not birding for the day.  When local listservs...