I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...
Red-breasted nuthatches, with their bold personalities and unmistakable “yank, yank, yank,” remind us to slow down and notice even the smallest wonders in our own lives.
I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...
He put the bird headfirst into a black tube that sat on a tiny scale. He called out the weight (35.9 grams, or 1.2 ounces) to volunteer Peggy Sagan, who was writing information down on a chart. Junda ...
More than three decades after that last known sighting of the red-cockaded woodpecker in the summer of 1994, state and ...
Despite the tragic loss of most of our native forest species, Guam remains a surprisingly good place to find birds.
Bird banding at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in South Wellfleet is delicate work, more like jewelry repair ...