This past weekend the listservs, Facebook, text services, Twitter, word-of-mouth, weather radar, the calendar, and the entrails of a...

One of the many ancillary benefits of becoming a birder, apart from an elevated social status and encyclopedic knowledge...

The Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus is a large black and white shorebird that has distinctive long pink legs. It has...

Caribbean dry forests with trees such as Gumbo Limbo, Pigeon-Plum, and West Indies Mahogany; remote breeding colonies of Sooty...

The first weekend of May is not a time to ask if one will be birding; that avian observation...

I’m a biogeography buff, and I’m seriously disappointed when I get a guide book that doesn’t have maps in....

We birders in the northeastern United States are unbearable in April. All we do is complain about the lack...

Like many birders in the online era, I’m a big fan of eBird. The program’s merits scarcely have to...