A couple of days after Will and I were at Noblewood and saw a Dunlin, local nature photographer Jeff...

Those of us who scan the shores of the North Atlantic are privileged to occasionally encounter that most pulchritudinous...

The Butterbutt, or, more properly, the Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata) is one of the most common warblers in North...

On Sunday, October 28, I birded Jones Beach and Point Lookout in Nassau County, hoping to find migrating passerines...

It took until the last day I was in northeastern Germany to see Eurasian Coots. I was worried I...

The Pochard is a diving duck of Eurasia, similar to the North American Redhead and Canvasback. Somehow, despite having...

You had to know that I wouldn’t be able to resist doing this post for long. Great Tits and...

Like every other specialized activity, the noble pursuit of bird watching has accumulated its own collection of jargon, slang,...