Tag: rarities

Birding

Birding on Texel in Late October

December 2, 2023 by Luca No Comments

The Dutch Island of Texel is well-known amongst European birders due to the exciting number and quality of birds it attracts during spring and...

Birding

Queensland’s First Nordmann’s Greenshank

August 6, 2021 by Ken Cross 2 Comments

Nordmann’s Greenshank on the Cairns Esplanade [Adrian Walsh] Down here in Australia one can be a birder for a long time without experiencing a...

Birds

A Western Kingbird at Jones Beach

November 4, 2019 by Corey 1 Comment

This past Saturday morning I was out at Jones Beach birding all morning with my good friends Seth and Mary, who had dragged me,...

Birding

Operation Duck Drop

November 5, 2018 by Corey 2 Comments

The following emails were intercepted by our crack team of investigative journalists. They are from the internal communication system of a shadowy organization of...

Trips

Kirtland’s Warbler in Central Park

May 14, 2018 by Corey 2 Comments

Late in the afternoon on Friday, 11 May, I was at work in Suffolk County. I wouldn’t get done until 10 PM. When the...

Birding, Reviews

Feather Brained: My Bumbling Quest to Become a Birder & Find a Rare Bird on My Own

September 23, 2016 by Carrie 3 Comments

In writing, humor is perhaps the area where it’s hardest to disputandum the gustibus. One person’s cheeky irreverence is another person’s grating adolescent attitude;...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of June 2016)

June 13, 2016 by Mike 5 Comments

Every self-described birder grapples sooner or later with the question of misplaced rarities, namely whether or not to chase them. Weird birds seem to...