Everyone probably knows the story of how the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) came to the shores of America during...

There are few families of birds as bewitching as the birds-of-paradise. They are feathered jewels with extraordinary breeding dances almost unrivalled  in...

I spent some quality time recently with a flock of Semipalmated Sandpipers at Big Egg Marsh in my home...

Birding’s Holy Grails. They lurk ever-present in our sub-concious as sacred items on an unobtainable, yet highly desirable, list....

I have a feeling that this summer is going to be weird. How else to interpret the sudden arrival...

    At the onset of this post, let me firmly state that I love taxonomy. I even attended...

So, it is now officially winter! After several weeks of temperatures dropping to 10c (50f) we really feel like...

This story comes from Lisa Kelly, a wildlife rehabilitator in Tarrytown, New York, by way of Maggie Ciarcia, a...