Why would I call these beautiful woodpeckers the “clowns of the avian world?” Besides the facial features of the...

On a visit yesterday after work to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn I happened across this female Red-breasted Merganser...

Just a quick post today to appreciate one of New Zealand’s most attractive birds, the Paradise Shelduck. This is...

I don’t know what it is, but since I bought Dick Forsman‘s “The Raptors of Europe and Middle East”...

Weird flocks are fun. One does not typically find a Black-crowned Night-Heron mixed in with Rock Pigeons and American Coots....

The more data about bird migration we gather from professional and citizen science efforts, the more each one of...

Purple Gallinules are awesome. And I am in the enviable position of having a surfeit of images of Porphyrio martinica...

We’re in the rough part of winter now, the part that seems to keep spring just a fingertip’s length...