While wandering around my home borough on Sunday morning doing some post-snowstorm birding I made my way to Oakland Lake in northeastern Queens with the...

Just when you’ve persuaded everyone you know, from barflies in Montana to hotshot Manhattan editors to your infant nephews, that birds are the greatest...

Back in January, when I was enjoying my attendance at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival down in Titusville, Florida, I had an...

I’ve only seen Tigerfish (Alestidae, genus Hydrocynus, usually Hydrocynus goliath) in two contexts, but I’ve seen a lot of them. One is on the...

Ron Dudley is an amazing nature photographer who is based in northern Utah. Since he retired from being a high school teacher in 2003...

Usually, it’s “Bird eating fish” but here we have a case of a “Bird-eating fish.” The Wels Catfish, Silurus glanis, is the second largest...

So my last couple of posts have not had pictures in them. Bad! But that was only because, inspired by Corey, I’ve been working...

A while back I asked the question, How much bird is there, anyway? which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your...