Category: Birds

Birding is centered on connections: connecting to one’s self, connecting to nature, and connecting to others. This month’s eBirder of…

Replicating a historic survey from 30 years ago, the Intermountain West Shorebird Survey is a five-year effort to count shorebirds…

This fall season, learn how to document your birding experiences with a nature journal in addition to your eBird checklists.…

Fifty-four counts were conducted in Virginia-Washington DC for the 2023-2024 Christmas Bird Count (CBC) season. This includes the new Dragon…

A Common and Hoary Redpoll perched together. (These two species were lumped into a single species, Redpoll, in 2024.) Photo…

Down an unmarked road in Maryland’s 13,000-acre Patuxent Research Refuge, on the grounds of an abandoned Whooping Crane breeding facility,…

American Crow: (left) by Ian Routley / Macaulay Library, Common Raven by Kyle Lima / Macaulay Library. Crows and ravens…

Have you ever paused to appreciate the chocolate-dipped head of a female Eastern Towhee? Or been struck by the bold striping…

Green Heron by Joshua Zhou / Macaulay Library. Birds are brilliant and colorful; they sing sweet melodies; they perch outside…

Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a landmark piece of legislation that transformed the health of…