About a week before Thanksgiving, a neighbor alerted me to a black scoter that was hanging out in the small pond across from the Four Columns Inn in the village of Newfane. I hurried up the road and ...

Waterfowl are some of the more familiar birds for people. There is hardly a person who doesn’t know what a mallard looks like and its familiar “quack, quack.” Others species that are familiar to most ...

One duck stood out among the nearly 45,800 birds spotted during the annual Tri-Cities bird count. Courtesy Clark Satre One duck stood out among the nearly 45,800 birds spotted during the annual ...

The morning of my first pheasant hunt in North Dakota, I stared at the male pheasant painted on the side of my coffee cup hoping the artist's rendition was true to life. I tried to memorize the exact ...

We have never had a better sense of the timescales of Earth, of the ebb and flow of life across the planet, the rise and fall of species (not least, in eventual prospect, our own). Measured against ...

Among other signs of impending geezerhood, I keep noticing that some birds that used to be common are harder and harder to find. I can remember winters when the bay seemed to be paved with surf ...