ducks

This just might be a birding joke as old as the hills, but it’s one I hear without fail every…

This past Sunday I led a birding outing in Queens for New York City Audubon. The focus of the trip…

There is no mistaking a Crossley ID Guide.  Larger, denser with avian information than your typical field guide, a Crossley…

Having grown up in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, I made the reasonable assumption that the Black Duck…

Everyone knows what a male Mallard looks like. The drake of this extremely common, sexually dimorphic species (Anas platyrhynchos) cuts a…

I spent a few hours in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge blind #1 last weekend and filmed the following video…

As a birder, this 72 minute documentary film about the Duck Stamp Contest didn’t accomplish what I was hoping it…

I just got back from a flying visit to Melbourne, Australia’s second city and an exciting place to visit and…

Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide by Sébastien Reeber is an exhaustively comprehensive reference book that…

I admit that sometimes I am pretty negative about ducks. They’re a bit creepy. I mean, I’ve had occasion to…