After work on Friday I decided to stop at Strack Pond at the western edge of Forest Park, where wood-warblers had been around in...

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each offers a portrait of a...

Yellow-throated Warblers are a rarity in New York State and as I mentioned earlier this year they are usually considered an “overshoot,” that is,...

Greg Lawrence is an ace New York birder who is one of the lucky (?) few who has birded with both Mike and Corey....

This spring I have probably had more in-your-face wood-warblers than I have ever had before. I am not sure exactly why but I am...

Earlier this month I had stopped at Forest Park for a quick, late-morning, visit as we birders in Queens tend to do, especially in...

I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern North Carolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon. The story is etched into...

This past weekend the listservs, Facebook, text services, Twitter, word-of-mouth, weather radar, the calendar, and the entrails of a sacrificial goat all indicated that...