This time of year we birders are all about firsts.  The slow return of breeding birds to the higher...

Whoo-hoo! It is now, on 20 March 2012, spring!  Take that, southern hemisphere! Here in New York it has...

Colombia is not only home to nearly 20% of all avian life on the planet but this birding mecca...

Do people go birding while inebriated?  There is the blog The Drinking Bird, but what about the drinking birder? ...

Buteo lineatus, the Red-shouldered Hawk, is a gorgeous bird. Before January I had come across the very red birds...

Faith and Begorrah, I’ve made it through another St. Patty’s Day without ingesting corned beef, cabbage, or green beer!...

Flushing Meadows Corona Park, March 2010 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus is a much-maligned and persecuted creature.  Like cormorants and...

Oriental Plovers Charadrius veredus are a species of shorebird that we see in varying numbers around Broome and they...