The Birdchaser

This was a good year for crossbills in much of the Mid Atlantic states.  We had a good push through my county in November, and then not so m...

For the last two days, I've had a great time birding and hanging out with David Lindo, The Urban Birder , from London. David Lindo (T...

I just spent a very enjoyable hour watching Birders: The Central Park Effect .  This documentary film features a year in the life of ...

Here's the evidence:   Click on the photo to enlarge. Yes, that's the Princeton Field Guide to The Parrots of the World th...

Yesterday I felt like some Great Plains birding, so I drove out to the wide expansive grasslands south of Phillipsburg.  This isn't a...

Did I tell you about the time I went birding with Manti Te'o on the north shore of Oahu? Or maybe we didn't really meet up ov...

There have been several Barnacle Geese--rare visitors to the Eastern United States from Iceland--kicking around New Jersey this winter (see ...

Yesterday I heard about 3 Northern Lapwing found at the back of a pasture in New Egypt down in Ocean County (these will be the 4th NJ recor...

This afternoon I got a text from Frank Sencher, Jr. that a Greater White-fronted Goose was at nearby Spruce Run Reservoir.  I headed over th...

OK, not the ABA Bird of the Year , but my personal first bird of the year was... Tufted Titmouse .  I had tried for owls at midnight, but ...

Over at Birding Is Fun, I posted a recap of my Top 10 Birds of 2012 .  I had a great year birding in my local county, with a few longer trip...

Jon Young,  What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Julie Zickefoose,  The Bl...

Download here (pdf) BirdLife Netherlands is a great organization doing fantastic work with urban bird conservation. Last year they spo...

Common Redpoll, Spruce Run, Hunterdon, NJ 15 Nov 2012 The last couple of days I've had flyover Red Crossbill, White-winged Crossbill...

While I was working in the yard getting ready for Hurricane Sandy, my daughter decided to try and hand feed the Pine Siskins that have been ...