The Birdchaser

So far there have been a few nights with birds on the NEXRAD.  Tonight is another night of light migration.  A few birds on the radar, but n...

On a recent trip to Oahu to present Mayan ethno-ornithological results at an endangered languages conference , I enjoyed spending time with ...

Last Saturday I led a morning field trip for the Birding Club of Delaware County.  We hit the main vantage points along the Delaware Ri...

My name is Rob Fergus.  I'm an ornithologist.  I am almost 50 years old, and I bird in a van, down by the river. With fall migration w...

As a teenage birder growing up in Oregon, my favorite book to check out from the Clackamas County Library was Adventures in Birding , b...

This week I finally got my OldBird21c microphone back up and running for the first time after moving from NJ to sePA this past year.  It has...

On Jan 5, the weather was turning bad with a week of subfreezing temperatures forecast.  Birds were few and far between at my backyard...

So by the numbers, 2017 was better than average for me, though not particularly stellar. I did manage to get my official (old) ABA area li...

As of the end of May, my photo standings for the year are: Mammals   6/25  Herps         8/50 Moths       0/100 Birds     118/200 I...

A little game I'm playing this year is to see if I can take identifiable photographs of: 25 Mammals 50 Reptiles or Amphibians 100 Mot...

I've been A.W.O.L. here at the Birdchaser blog for over a year.  Most of my social media time is now on Facebook.  I post most of my bir...

Looking forward to giving an all new Maya birds talk this Saturday at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.   More details here .

Most of 2015 was dedicated to my Backyard Big Year .  So I didn't chase many birds.  Or build much of a list outside of my yard.  But I ...

Pre-dawn BigSit in the backyard I love the Big Sit .  A few years ago I managed 47 species seen or heard from my backyard in one day .  ...

After a month of travel in Mexico and out to Utah, it was hard to get back in the Backyard Big Year saddle.  Hard to get excited about hardc...

We originally planned to spend a week in the Lacandon Maya village of Metzabok and a few more days in Naha, but we had a medical emergency a...