A recent visit to Jamaica Bay didn’t offer up the hoped-for and previously-reported White-faced Ibis, a bird that I have still not seen in...

Of course the saying is “April showers bring May flowers” but the volume of rain we had back at the beginning of the month...

It is the twenty-sixth of March.  By the calendar, spring has been here for nearly a week.  Red-winged Blackbird hordes have gone through, and...

With sun all weekend in New York City and temperatures north of fifty degrees Fahrenheit we can all be forgiven for thinking that spring...

The May 2009 installment of Birdwatch Radio is now available with a tasty, thematic Salute to Spring Migration.  Steve Moor, the brains and voice...

Though it is a myth, of course, that American Robins are not around in winter, I still enjoyed my first robins of spring yesterday...

By now, Christine Guarino, a regular Welcome Wednesday contributor, needs no introduction. If you don’t know who she is, you can get an idea...

Today, the winter solstice, December 22, is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. It is also, despite the quantity of...