This morning, after we Bloggerhead Kingbirds competed at the Superbowl of Birding all day Saturday (more on that later),...

Shai Mitra is a birder-extraordinaire, a wonderfully patient teacher, a member of the New York State Avian Records Committee,...

Pictures of two different accipiters, without comment as to possible identification.  One was found perched and digiscoped in Kissena...

Just like so many of you, we love an avian identification challenge. Thanks to the 10,000 Birds Clinic, we...

Sometimes an easy bird can become difficult to identify.  Such was the case with the molting bird below, a...

For the uninitiated, the word “coot” calls to mind nothing more than doddering old codgers and curmudgeons. Nature lovers,...

Identity theft occurs with astonishing regularity in the avian world where all too often, species share so many overlapping...