This post comes by way of an assignment. After seeing an albino squirrel in a Redgannet post, The Management wrote to me suggesting that...
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I am not an ornithologist but this albino finch got my attention. I suspect that it is an incomplete albino since there is some...
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As a native New Yorker, I’ve seen my share of squirrels. Our standard Sciuridae is the Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and while most...
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While people tend to consider penguins in terms of black and white, every once in a while one of these dapper divers drops the...
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The typical woodpecker, with its coloration of black, white, and red, is ingrained into our brains as birders. We all have our familiar species...
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A recent visit to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond was rewarding in both number and variety of waterfowl, but none drew my attention...
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