Birds

For many North American birders, wood warblers represent everything exciting, compelling, and immediate about birding. The desire to better understand…

Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so far….

Was it Shakespeare who asserted that a bird by any other name would sing as sweet? Perhaps he didn’t write…

Yesterday morning I spent some time visiting a few of of my favorite Queens birding spots, hoping to find one…

  These days, quite a few species are breeding at Nanhui, Shanghai. This involves a lot of flying around, finding…

Next door to my hometown, the Gulf Breeze Zoo occupies 50 acres near the Santa Rosa Sound. While I harbor…

Now that the Mad Queen is dead, Brandon the Broken, First of His Name, is the King of the Andals…

A few miles from my home, a bridge rises gradually over the water of Santa Rosa Sound. Linking the mainland…

The 2020 Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Do birders and canoeists/kayakists/kayakers/kakies make good bedfellows I wonder? The new…

In 1942, a shepherd from the Ural Mountains, Vasily Zaytsev, then a soldier in the Red Army, found himself on…