banding

It required a bit of an ethical adjustment. Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European…

As I write this note, probably hundreds if not thousands of shorebirds are heading south to the wintering grounds. Some…

Now that passerine migration has largely wound down the attention of this New York birder has shifted to seabirds, shorebirds,…

Ecuador was made for birdwatchers!  A tiny country filled with biodiversity which can be easily reached in a short drive… …

It is fall migration season and the birds are flying. We have had quite a run of birds overhead as…

Baby birds are on the brain this week. I recently helped out with an American Kestrel nest box program and…

Mention that you’re interested in watching birds in Western New York, and someone will invariably ask you if you’ve been…

I bet you do! I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever, a…

I had a completely different post planned and tossed it out the window this morning over my coffee as I…

Bird banding (or ringing if you’re in the Old World) is considered one of the most effective ways of monitoring…