Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on my upper arm… A...

May 2009 After a wakeup call at highly uncivilised 3.45 am, at the crack of dawn I am sitting in a car by the...

January is sort of a birding sprint – you start fresh and, all of a sudden, head for them all. In a typical birding...

I can imagine how you hate to see a Bald Eagle in a movie and hear the Red-tailed Hawk screech. Yet, at least, the...

The entire world, it seemed, was buried under two feet of snow. I was checking weather forecasts for days looking for a window of...

How many species have I observed this year? The malicious eBird answers: only 186! Yuck! Yes, I know, I’ll reach 190, but 200? No...

ACT I SCENE I. Iron Gates (Djerdap) national park, Serbia. Small canyon among wooded hills. Morning. Framed by red Permian sandstone, Eric Hyman is...

Photo: This area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles, which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country....