cormorants

As I said last week, I’ve decided to try and knock off a few of the New Zealand endemics and…

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post), this year I invited…

It all started during the icy February of 1996. The night temperatures in Belgrade, Serbia, were already below minus 10…

On our recent trip to the Southern Highlands we encountered a miserable morning one day and it really looked unlikely…

Bald Ravens.  Snakebirds.  Devil Birds. Cormorants and darters have gotten a bad rap throughout human history.  They’re seen as bad…

Well, that first edition of the new and improved I and the Bird went pretty well, didn’t it? Are we…

After spending a couple of days at Parry’s Lagoon Nature Reserve on our recent camping and birding trip we headed…

Flushing Meadows Corona Park, March 2010 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus is a much-maligned and persecuted creature.  Like cormorants and shags…

There I was (I’ve been reading Thurber) on board a boat off Baja California, reveling in cormorants (three species!), Brown…

An early morning visit to Jamaica Bay recently led to several notable sightings, but nothing could compare to the sight…