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I was sorting through a large mixed flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds and European Starlings at Fort Tilden on Friday morning when…

I had the pleasure of heading to the Winter Wings Bird Festival in Klamath Falls, Oregon last month and it…

The Winter Wings Festival in Klamath Falls Oregon was awesome! Not only did I get to meet Sharon Stiteler, aka…

Since at least 2009 there has been at least one hypopigmented, or piebald, American Robin living in Alley Pond Park in…

On our recent trip to Kununurra we encountered a rather odd looking bird. At Ivanhoe’s Crossing there were numerous Crimson…

This post comes by way of an assignment. After seeing an albino squirrel in a Redgannet post, The Management wrote…

I am not an ornithologist but this albino finch got my attention.  I suspect that it is an incomplete albino…

As a native New Yorker, I’ve seen my share of squirrels. Our standard Sciuridae is the Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus…

While people tend to consider penguins in terms of black and white, every once in a while one of these…

The typical woodpecker, with its coloration of black, white, and red, is ingrained into our brains as birders.  We all…