For far too long there has been a bird that North American birders have mocked, derided, persecuted, hated, and,...

New York City, June 2008 The title of this post pretty much says it all. A couple of weeks...

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

Sure, it’s a made-up bird, but as Seagull Steve says, “But wouldn’t this be an awesome bird? … Not only...

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? ...

Residents of the Americas may find this hard to believe, but the ubiquitous, adaptable House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is...