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

Winter at Point Lookout, the easternmost point of land on the south shore of Long Island, New York, before one reaches Jones Inlet, can...

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

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

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