The Birdchaser

Join me in 2015 for a hard-core birding adventure right in my own backyard! For 2015 I'm bringing hard core birding home in an all...

So the year isn't quite over, there are still a few days left to find something to add to this list.  But barring a last minute birding ...

I spent most of the day playing Santa's helper.  Not a lot of good birding on a drizzly overcast day on the North Pole.  My usual stops ...

A series of articles published this week ( see overview here ) provide the best view of bird evolution yet. Based on the complete gene map ...

This afternoon I was fortunate enough to see a pair of Evening Grosbeaks at a private residence near my home.  I had a couple of birds flyov...

Today is the tenth anniversary of my first post here on the Birdchaser Blog.  Back on this day in 2004, I had just accepted a job with Nat...

There are a lot of field guides out there.  Including guides aimed at beginners.  Each guide claims its own unique features.  Some are gre...

I've only lived in New Jersey for three years, but New Jersey is a great place to bird, with so many birds in such an easily traversed...

The other 700 club! It's been a long time since I hit a birding milestone in the ABA area .  In fact, I haven't really hit one...

I recorded this American Woodcock wing sound yesterday morning when a bird flew over my NFC microphone in my yard.  I usually hear these guy...

When I was in high school, one of my favorite books was Don Roberson's Rare Birds of the West Coast .  The only copy available to me w...

I recorded over 310 thrush calls between 5am and 6:35am at my home in Hunterdon County, NJ this morning.  Here's the eBird checklist . ...

This past spring I crashed the laptop I was recording night flight calls on, and I didn't get my MacBook Pro set up to record until last...

Neotropic Cormorant, Clinton, NJ, 11 June 2014 After not seeing any reports of the Neotropic Cormorant I found in Clinton back in April...

Grasshopper Sparrows are special hidden marvels that only birders get to enjoy.  They aren't a bird that the public would usually notice...

I spent an hour this morning trying to get a photo of a very vocal Yellow-breasted Chat singing in the dense shrubbery in a field near Flemi...

Tuesday night I had to run to the store, and on my way home, I stopped by Demott Park in Clinton, NJ.  I stop by this little pond almost eve...

Wilson's Snipe, Clinton, Hunterdon, NJ 12 March 2014 Spring is finally in the air, with warm temps and rain.  Today was the first da...

This semester my students at East Stroudsburg University will be getting to know 100 traditional and indigenous cultures around the world....

It was a cold and frozen month, with most water in Hunterdon County frozen over.  With some determination and good fortune, I was able to ma...