This just might be a birding joke as old as the hills, but it’s one I hear without fail every year come Christmas Bird...

It was almost a month ago that I wondered how many species of ducks, geese, and swans could be found in my home borough...

This past Sunday I led a birding outing in Queens for New York City Audubon. The focus of the trip was ducks and we...

There is no mistaking a Crossley ID Guide.  Larger, denser with avian information than your typical field guide, a Crossley Guide bursts with bird...

Having grown up in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, I made the reasonable assumption that the Black Duck Porter made by Greenport...

Everyone knows what a male Mallard looks like. The drake of this extremely common, sexually dimorphic species (Anas platyrhynchos) cuts a fine form with his...

I spent a few hours in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge blind #1 last weekend and filmed the following video of Gadwalls (Anus strepera)...