Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. This ridiculous focus of the Birding Internet on North American wood-warblers is boring on a...

        There’s an apartment building just across the alley from mine. It’s a real…”fixer upper” to say the least. It’s been...

It’s a sign, I think, when I receive a book to review and realize I just bought the same book, on my own recognizance,...

North Americans may find this hard to believe, but the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is beloved around the world yet slowly declining throughout the...

I haven’t been birding yet in 2013. Oh, I’ve gotten my first bird of the year (European Starling – yay?) and a handful more...

The celebration of Columbus Day in the United States has become somewhat contentious over the years as people have taken a more nuanced look...

For far too long there has been a bird that North American birders have mocked, derided, persecuted, hated, and, perhaps worse of all, ignored. ...

New York City, June 2008 The title of this post pretty much says it all. A couple of weeks ago I watched and photographed...