The Birdchaser

I'm off to Jocotan, Guatemala to do some ethnoornithology research with a Mayan linguist. Hope to post something from down there, but i...

A scout from church created a bluebird trail at my work for an Eagle Scout project a couple weeks ago. This morning I went for a little wal...

My post on Muscongus Bay Bird Food is featured in the brand new Circus of the Spineless (a blog carnival dedicated to invertebrates) hoste...

Hoping to find some migrant shorebirds, I stopped by Bradford Dam in southern Bucks County on the way to work this morning. Most of the lak...

Check out my article on the bird flu in the Lawn & Garden Retailer magazine ( here ). Money quote: By keeping bird feeders and birdbath...

Here's a question--Who is going to step up to save the Gunnison Sage Grouse , perhaps the most endangered bird in the Lower 48? I was j...

Announced here . Follow the links to watch the Public Service Announcement here . Maybe a bit over the top scary, but for kids, an importa...

Friday I flew to Denver and drove three and a half hours up to Mt. Princeton for the Audubon Colorado Rendezvous . A spectacular meeting pl...

I love rare birds, and was dismayed a couple months ago when the USFWS decided not to list the Gunnison Sage Grouse as an endangered speci...

This morning I made a quick stop by a water detention pond just north of the Giant supermarket in Quakertown. The basin is only about an ac...

Nights in Maine are great for watching the skies. After a day of workshops , we enjoyed exploring the galaxy--and more distant galaxies--un...

What do you do at the Audubon Leadership Workshop after a day of watching puffins and eagles? Why, you enjoy my presentation on how birds ...

On the third day of the Audubon Leadership Workshop on Hog Island, we took the Puffin IV out to Eastern Egg Rock to look for the puffins tha...

On the second day of the Audubon Leadership Workshop at Hog Island, we took a break to explore the intertidal zone, or as I like to think o...

Arriving at Hog Island for the Audubon Leadership Workshop for Audubon chapter leaders, it was good to be back in the land of the Black Gui...

Driving up to Maine to help with the Audubon Leadership Workshop at Hog Island , I stopped off at Scarborough Marsh to look for Saltmarsh S...

I just got back from a week in Maine (details forthcoming), and wasn't able to check online before I drove home...which is why I drove r...

In the past six months, we've learned a lot about how bird flu is and isn't spread. Here's a great summary of what we know and ...

Today is my 25th birding anniversary. Actually, the first date I have with a bird sighting was a Killdeer I saw 14 June 1977, and I made my...

In 10 years of living in Texas, I waited in vain for one of these guys to show up again so I could chase it for my ABA list. Now that I...