Beauty can be found in the most commonplace. I was struck the other day by the perfect patterns created...

My travels have taken me all over the United States including coastal sites where some of the most interesting...

I know of no other day of the year when a larger percentage of Americans are likely to be...

Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) photos by Larry Jordan Shorebirds. Why are they seemingly so difficult to identify? One obvious reason...

The results of the Swarovski Optik Digiscoper of the Year 2011 have just been published and once again, they...

Red-tailed Tropicbird. “This clumsy, ungraceful bird was displeasing to observe” – Carol F.   Pelagic trips. There is nothing...

November is normally a pretty dull month compared to some of the more extreme periods in our calendar year....

New York has its famous Red-tailed Hawks Pale Male and, until recently, Lola. Cambridge, Mass has a celebrity raptor pair,...