Birds

  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…

On a walk around Baisley Pond Park’s eponymous pond in Queens recently I heard a Gray Squirrel chittering away angrily…

Shorebirds (in Europe: waders) must be an acquired birding taste. No one starts birding dreaming of drab-coloured, unobtrusive and, far…

Over the last couple of weeks Fish Crows have flooded back into New York City, early harbingers of spring, and…

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2019 this morning at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Actually, I saw my first five…