The Birdchaser

I was at the Conserving Birds in Human-Dominated Landscapes conference at the American Museum of Natural History in New York all day, and c...

Spring is the perfect time to get outside, see some wonderful birds, and think about some easy steps you can take to protect the migrants as...

This morning I arrived at work to the singing of a Wood Thrush across the road in the woods. An hour later, a Baltimore Oriole was singing ...

Just before a line of thunderstorms moved through this morning, six turkeys were feeding in the field behind my office. I'm glad I live...

I was quoted today in an AP story about migratory birds and bird flu. Again, not the best quote (you gotta go all the way to the end of th...

Spring is slowly arriving...a few trees starting to leaf out, though most are still bare. I walked down by the creek to look for migrating ...

A good article on the possible role of poultry smuggling in the spread of H5N1 avian influenza is ( here ) in the April 15 New York Times. ...

Just read an interesting quote from an article ( here ) in the latest issue of The Auk: An underlying assumption in avian habitat management...

Saturday I spent an hour on the back porch and counted 21 bird species--not bad for an early spring count in an urban setting. Highlights w...

The blog carnival I and the Birds #21 is up now, with another great selection of the best in recent bird blog posts. It includes an interv...

Fantastic news story ( here ) about this from the International Herald Tribune. Good to see that bird smuggling is being more closely looke...

Just saw the news that the USFWS has denied the petition to list the Gunnison Sage Grouse as an endangered species. With less than 5,000 o...

I visited Sapsucker Woods and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology yesterday for some meetings. Tree Swallows over the pond near the lab w...

For most people, crows are crows are crows. In fact, most people may have a hard time distinguishing between a crow and a blackbird. So it...

I'm down in Washington DC for meetings at the National Geographic this week. Not a lot of birds in this part of NW DC. Mostly starling...

I recently finished reading Lyanda Haupt's Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent . I'm going to be writing a full review for Birder...

In the never not birding category--while having dinner yesterday, I saw an Osprey fly up Perkiomen Creek behind our house. Robins have been ...

Good NPR story ( here ) on the search for H5N1 avian influenza in Alaska this year.

If you need some heavy reading, check out An Early Detection System for Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza in Wild Migratory Birds U.S. ...

News that Tom DeLay is to resign takes me back to the Spring of 2004, when I was teaching a course on urban bird conservation at the Univer...