This year wasn’t so bad, especially compared to what had to be endured in the early to mid 2010’s.  Just look at your favourite...

Late in the afternoon on Friday, 11 May, I was at work in Suffolk County. I wouldn’t get done until 10 PM. When the...

I have to confess that it took me some time to warm up to Bruce M. Beehler’s North on the Wing. Edwin Way Teale,...

The dog days of July, when birders desperately seek out south-bound shorebirds, odd breeding records, or anything else to keep themselves from losing their...

I’ve lived in Queens for eight years now and have visited Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge over one hundred times while I’ve been here. Every...

Mid-to-late April keeps birders in the northeastern United States on edge as we want to see every species as it arrives and we don’t...

Before it was lumped with the western subspecies, the eastern version of the Yellow-rumped Warbler was (and may someday again be) called the Myrtle Warbler. Personally,...

Bay-breasted Warblers are one of those wood-warblers that you hope to hear high up in the canopy on their spring migration. Then you induce...