larids

There are foods that are not easy for the uninitiated to eat.  Pomegranate is one, especially if you don’t realize…

A couple of weeks ago I posted a series of pictures of what I called “Ratty Summer Gulls” – gulls…

Until recently I had only ever seen a single Sandwich Tern.  It was back in July of 2009, the day…

On a recent all-too-brief visit to that Mecca of birding in my home borough I was doing my best to…

A big bruiser of a bird, the Glaucous Gull is nothing if not bulky.  It sometimes looks like a gull…

I could watch terns all day long.  Flying, hunting, calling, preening, or just sitting around, I find terns fascinating.  It…

On the pelagic trip off the coast of New York this past Sunday one of the highlights of the trip…

This past Sunday I mounted a full expedition out to Suffolk County on Long Island with Andrew Baksh, otherwise known…