On 22 December a birder named David Rankin was hiking in the Catskill mountains of upstate New York when a fellow hiker asked him...

It is one thing for a single hummingbird to show up at a single location in the northeastern United States in November.  In fact,...

Until today the only Painted Buntings I had ever seen were in Honduras. And, despite their absurdly gaudy appearance, I am sad to say...

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. That most dreaded of disappointments. The dip. For those that might not fully comprehend,...

Hoopoe Upupa Epops With a name like that you would just want to see this bird! It sounds good and it looks good….even a...

When Mike still lived in the Bronx, lo those many years ago, he would regularly make the run up to Yonkers, in southwestern Westchester...

The Brown Booby is a bird that helps explain why birders don’t always want to share what they are doing with non-birders.  Explaining to...

There are a few birds up here that, while we may find as just part of the fauna, others would foam at the mouth...