Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. When he...

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

Red-tailed Tropicbird. “This clumsy, ungraceful bird was displeasing to observe” – Carol F.   Pelagic trips. There is nothing...

From the perspective of the shore, the ocean looks featureless.  A pancake flat expanse of blue and green and...

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

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

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

A big bruiser of a bird, the Glaucous Gull is nothing if not bulky.  It sometimes looks like a...