One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers...

Winter at Point Lookout, the easternmost point of land on the south shore of Long Island, New York, before...

Though most people probably have only heard of eiders in relation to eiderdown pillows, the Common Eider is a...

The Black Scoter Melanitta americana, called the American Scoter by some and Melanitta nigra by others*, is a large...

When winter rolls around and most of our breeding birds have departed for points south, we on North America’s...