For the first time, I have the rare pleasure of introducing you to a new-to-this-column species. After 27 years of reporting on my observations, I have finally acquired a photograph I think is worthy ...

Through the darkness of every spring night, millions of tiny bodies flutter and glide to Alaska from every continent on Earth. Here songbirds find a summer home, mate, build nests, lay eggs, raise ...

Many Mainers enjoy birding at some level. Most people are mildly to keenly interested, and a few are borderline crazy. There is no specific scale to measure bird-craziness, but there are clear signals ...

This is the first picture ever taken of a small American bird on British shores. It made history after being blown across the Atlantic by the recent gales. After being discovered at Nanchizel, ...

Essex County: Reports from Plum Island included a yellow-crowned night-heron, a stilt sandpiper, a black guillemot, and an olive-sided flycatcher. A late harlequin duck was observed at Rockport, and ...

When you hear a bird that you just can't identify, it often helps to track it down visually with binoculars. But with willow and alder flycatchers, that technique won't prove helpful. These two, tiny, ...

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