The Birdchaser

Earlier this year Princeton University Press (in the US) published Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, and Dan Zetterström's Birds of Euro...

I recently got in trouble for suggesting that birders are too geeky . Turns out there are plenty of famous and cool people who are not only...

Wednesday night (Oct 13) at 7pm I'll be speaking to the Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon in Cold Harbor, New York. On Tuesday night, Octob...

For the record, this is me at age 13. In addition to the Bushnell 7x35 binocular, notice the brown pants, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge ...

I spent a good amount of time last month looking at birding demographics . Here's a chart showing to scale various birding populations ...

Ever seen a swift that seemed a little bit funny, and maybe you thought it might be a Vaux's Swift (if you live in the East) or a Chimne...

This morning the American Birding Association announced that its board of directors has named my friend Jeff Gordon as its new President . I...

So, how well do you know your common birds? There are three things "wrong" with this Blue Jay. What are they?

My upcoming talk to the Precolumbian Society at the University of Pennsylvaina Museum on October 9 The Woodpecker is a Witch! Birds among ...

So yesterday I spent an hour with my Rowan University students teaching them how to identify birds with a field guide. We did it as a game,...

Birding, more than anything, is characterized by dreaming. While birdwatchers may be satisfied to enjoy the birds they happen to see in the...

A nice morning walk around the reservoir at Pine Run this morning. Not a huge amount of shorebird diversity (see list at end), and didn...

Last night at the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club meeting I was able to hang out with Ted Floyd and pick up a copy of his latest Let...

Here's another email I get all the time over at AbsoluteBirdControl.com : I live in a residential city area. I often have my 2 small dog...

This morning I went out for some stilted birding. The standard definition of stilted is "stiffly or artificially formal; stiff." ...

My wife is not a birder. She is a runner. Even when she isn't running, when months or years go by without a good run, there is a core ...

Some people just don't like birds. Here's an actual email I got as part of my work helping people with their bird control issues at...

So I've been thinking a lot about the search for a new head of the American Birding Association . I don't have much to say about it...

Back when I was out of town, FM 89.3 in Louisville broadcast a previously taped radio interview I did with them last month. We talked about...