The Birdchaser

Tomorrow morning at 7:10EDT I will be on Morning Living , a Martha Stewart Living Sirius Satellite Radio show talking about bird migration a...

I'm a sucker for animal biographies. As a kid I loved Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known and still remember finding...

Check out this report about Haast's Eagle , a huge bird with a 9 foot wingspan and talons like tiger paws. Could easily have carried of...

Here's video of the Mayan Deer Dance I got to observe and help document in Belize last year.

I'm heading to Austin next month to lead a workshop on the ecology and life history of the six owl species that regularly occur in Centr...

Lots of info and more links to videos about Sibley's new tree book.

This is Robyn Puffenbarger 's video of a Sand Plover recently found in Virginia--believed to be a Greater Sand Plover (3rd record for th...

Today's my birthday, so I've gotta get out and see some birds. If you get out you can have a fLaPpY bIrDdAy too!

Ted Williams has a succinct article on the conflict between feral cat management advocates and wildlife issues in the most recent Audubon m...

OK, here in Bucks County, PA I don't think we ever lose the gulls entirely--you can see a few Ring-billed Gulls up at Lake Nockamixon ev...

Today while canoeing with the family, my NBS (non-birding spouse) said "is that a sandpiper over there?" and sure enough it was a ...

In honor of International Vulture Awareness Day , I thought I'd share this little story we picked up from some Ch'orti' Maya in ...

(photo: wikipedia ) For years we've all been told that the Barred Owl says "who cooks for you, who cooks for you all." Is tha...

There is a Swallow-tailed Kite that has been hanging around the Militia Hill Hawkwatch and the adjacent golf course for the past week. Th...

When I was at Audubon, I frequently had to deal with statements along the lines of "Global Warming is the greatest threat to birds and ...

There's a bird out in California right now that was originally identified as a Great Knot, an Asian shorebird never before seen in Cali...

I'm bugged about the bird surveyors in Louisiana that shot the first Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher ever discovered in North America instead ...

For years we've been taught that the Carolina Wren sings: teakettle teakettle teakettle ( listen here ). That's all well and good...

Been laying low a bit lately, but ventured out for a couple hours in the rain today and found a few fun birds. Best was an adult Black-bell...

Neil Peart isn't just the drummer and lyricist for the band Rush, but also a birder. Check out his recent recounting of an attempt to ...