Recently there has been a lot of discussion of global warming impacts on the Boreal and what we need to do to slow these impacts. But a story that came out a few weeks ago really brought home the issue and the urgency to act for me, perhaps in part because it happened in a [...]

One topic that never seems to grow old among birders is the subject of poorly-named or misnamed birds. If you go on a bird club outing with at least five people and happen to see a Red-bellied Woodpecker, I can guarantee that at least one person is going to say, “I don’t know why they [...]

St. Louis was colder than I expected. Of course, most of the eastern
U.S. was colder than normal the day I happened to be there, last Friday, April 11th. I was visiting in order to give a presentation for St. Louis Audubon’s annual meeting that night but I was fortunate to have some time for birding [...]

The avian parade to the Boreal is well under way! After a long cold winter here in the Albany area, local birders have recently been enjoying the almost-daily appearance of new spring migrants. And while some of the new arrivals are local breeders, many of them are birds on their way to the Boreal–Fox Sparrow, [...]

After eagerly awaiting the arrival of my copy of the “Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario 2001-2005” for a few weeks, I was excited to find it sitting on my doorstep yesterday afternoon. From the stunning cover photograph of Prairie Warbler to the extensive content inside, the book quickly proved that it was well [...]