This time of year we birders are all about firsts.  The slow return of breeding...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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