Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. When he isn’t snapping photos in the...

It seemed liked an innocuous idea. Seven birders, a boat for hire, and a cruise around lower New York Harbor and vicinity looking for...

Red-tailed Tropicbird. “This clumsy, ungraceful bird was displeasing to observe” – Carol F.   Pelagic trips. There is nothing in birding like a pelagic…you...

From the perspective of the shore, the ocean looks featureless.  A pancake flat expanse of blue and green and blue-green (with some green-blue thrown...

If the state of North Carolina is known for one thing in the greater birding world, it’s what goes on off of its central...

Iceland Gulls do not breed in Iceland.  They do winter there, as well as in northern parts of Europe, in eastern and central Canada,...

When a pelagic trip is short of great new birds to watch there is almost always the chum scrum to entertain the despondent birder....

A big bruiser of a bird, the Glaucous Gull is nothing if not bulky.  It sometimes looks like a gull built from a child’s...