The Great Egret is a great bird.  With a dagger attached to a head that has glaring eyes and...

Western Grebes (Aechmophorus occidentalis) and Clark’s Grebes (Aechmophorus clarkii) are probably best known for their elaborate courtship displays.  These ceremonies are...

It’s a plover, and it lives on the shore. What more do you need to know? Actually, there is...

On a recent visit to Cape May Point State Park in search of an elusive Purple Gallinule I did...

Ah yes, the answer to this week’s quiz.  Here is what I remember about the quiz: the clues are...

There are three species of waterfowl that birders in most of the eastern United States are going to encounter...

Holiday weekends rank among my very favorite things, but they can be somewhat problematic. At what point, for example,...

Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks.  If...