Over the years I have been able to spend considerable time all over Portugal; birding, eating and drinking to my heart’s delight. Well, the...

There are a few spectacles in the birding community that are high energy, happen quickly, and is worth any effort to experience it.  One...

Volunteering on Heligoland for a month allowed me to get a sense of changing migration patterns in autumn. The first half of September (covered...

Last year there was a spate of books specifically about bird “behavior” – though one might well say that every book about birds, from...

Birds are arriving in North America, flying from places far to the south. Many come from Central America, a good number fly much further....

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2021 this morning at Idlewild Park in my home borough of Queens. My birding buddy Meryl actually...

August is a bit of a transition month – from the summer lull at the beginning of the month to the first shorebird migrants...

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2020 this morning at Cunningham Park in my home borough of Queens, where I was looking for...