Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in ...

A female ruff, also known as a reeve, has been spotted multiple times in Hampton over the last couple of weeks.>> Download the FREE WMUR app The reeve, a Eurasian bird that tends to stray into North ...

The best places for waterfowl and shorebirds were the coastal sloughs, where low tide exposed mud for huge flocks of hungry migrants. American avocets and black-necked stilts, willets and yellowlegs, ...

-- especially shorebird aficionados -- last week was a great time to look for avian visitors. , in Cumberland County. The Garden State has about 20 records for fork-tailed flycatcher, a bird that has ...