As Nate pointed out on the ABA Blog yesterday, we North American birders, especially those in the east, are a tad bit obsessed with...

This past weekend the listservs, Facebook, text services, Twitter, word-of-mouth, weather radar, the calendar, and the entrails of a sacrificial goat all indicated that...

We birders in the northeastern United States are unbearable in April. All we do is complain about the lack of migrating birds so far...

It is spring! We in the northeastern United States are desperately awaiting the flood of migrant passerines that we are sure should be here...

The time has come….sadly we are losing huge numbers of migratory shorebirds as they head off on their journey north. It is a sad...

I finally saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2014 today at Rockaway Community Park in Queens! It is the next-to-latest date I have...

A loud chirp rang from the side of the mountain, and a handful of stones skittered down the talus slope. A bit alarming, given...

As if U.S. and Canadian birders needed another reason to pull ourselves out of the winter doldrums, how about birding for a good cause?...