It is one thing for a single hummingbird to show up at a single location in the northeastern United States in November. In fact,...
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Until today the only Painted Buntings I had ever seen were in Honduras. And, despite their absurdly gaudy appearance, I am sad to say...
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All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. That most dreaded of disappointments. The dip. For those that might not fully comprehend,...
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Hoopoe Upupa Epops With a name like that you would just want to see this bird! It sounds good and it looks good….even a...
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When Mike still lived in the Bronx, lo those many years ago, he would regularly make the run up to Yonkers, in southwestern Westchester...
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The Brown Booby is a bird that helps explain why birders don’t always want to share what they are doing with non-birders. Explaining to...
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There are a few birds up here that, while we may find as just part of the fauna, others would foam at the mouth...
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There was a time, a few years back, when I had some really good luck getting on a run of first state records for...
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