Birds

Edit: Unfortunately, the hawk’s frostbite went deeper than previously thought, and the bird had to be euthanized. However, I’m grateful…

I remember studying the map of countries participating in the international mid-winter waterbird census, where the USA wasn’t marked. How…

What qualifies a bird to be included in the top-5? My first criterion was that I observed it only once…

Of all the ducks in the world scaup are the worst. They are unattractive, ubiquitous, and uninteresting. Whether they are…

2018 is about to end. Checking my annual list, I am where I usually am at this time of year:…

While birding out at the coast of Queens this year I have noticed on several occasions a variety of birds,…

Maybe it’s because the American Coot (Fulica americana) is the most abundant and widely distributed species of rail in North America that…

Another year, another (American) Thanksgiving. Time to trot out the turkey facts! This day of thanks is, after all, known…

Yesterday morning I was out and about on the coast of Queens looking for migrating birds. At Jacob Riis Park…

Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama make up Central America. Notice that had I not used…