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...

I’ve written before about the surprising and sometimes lovely variety of forms that the simple Rock Pigeon can take, and how much fun there...

Do much birding in the city, and your thoughts will turn again and again to feral pigeons. As I have pointed out before, we...

Pigeons get no respect. More reviled than perhaps any other species for the mess they make, their copious poop, and their general ubiquity, they...

New Year’s Day 2014. With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species on my year list....

Via John of A DC Birding Blog, I ran across an article about a recent French study that suggests that urban birds may be...

Not in any espionage sense. Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a...

On our recent trip to Kununurra on the Western Australia/Northern Territory border we camped right next to the Hidden Valley National Park, because you...