The Birdchaser

Last weekend was the Great Backyard Bird Count , but the GBBC fat lady hasn't sung yet. If you saw birds last weekend, you have until M...

At 11:30 this morning Paul Guris sent out an alert on the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club email list that Anita Guris and Marty Dellwo ...

This afternoon I abjectly failed to get an identifiable photo of a Eurasian Wigeon on Green Lane Reservoir, Montgomery County,Pennsylvania....

So, in line with my comparison of text between the new Crossley ID guide and recent field guides , here's a comparison chart showing num...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is here! I took my kids out birding this morning, we checked out the duck migration at Peace Valley for 20 ...

So in my initial review of the Crossley ID Guide , I mentioned that the text for each species account seems shorter than found in most fiel...

Ice is starting to melt here in SE Pennsylvania and ducks are on the move! Spring is in the air! I spent a half hour at Peace Valley this ...

It's that time of the year again, time to head out and count the birds in your yard or your favorite birding spot. Or spots. You can b...

At long last The Crossley ID Guide is here! I'm not sure we've waited for this as long as we waited for the Sibley guide, but on...

If you read birding magazines you've seen this image before in Nikon optics advertisements. It's an iconic representation of Birde...

Do you remember back to before you were a birder? To before you were even a birdwatcher? Here I am with my sister on my way to grandma...

NASA image S13-01480 (original above, colorized below) Some people see this as a giant geoglyph--a carving of a parrot--on the surface of...

Starts at about 4:45--watch how kestrels use their ultraviolet vision to track and hunt voles.

Check out these bird head profiles on a building at the Late Classic Mayan city of Uxmal (about 850-1100 AD). You can see the long beaks (...

For the next little while I'm going to be a featured guest blogger over at WeLoveBirds.org --a birding social media site hosted by the ...

Don't laugh, but prowling peacocks are a real problem for some homeowners. I get several emails each month from folks looking for help ...

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What do most of our songbirds eat, or at least feed their young? Bugs! What do bugs eat? Why native plants, of course. So what's t...

Last fall I was birding at Lake Nockamixon near my house, when a bird of prey came flying past. By the time I saw it, it was already parall...