Think “tropical birds” and your mind’s eye most likely sees birds decked out in yellow, red, blue, and green, far more brilliant than our everyday LBJs (little brown jobs). Warblers, more correctly ...

Last week, I wrote about the large numbers of shorebirds, egrets and swallows that were staging and migrating through the Newburyport area. As these birds continue to move on and their numbers start ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Bird guides are essential in learning to identify birds, but there is no perfect guide, and no complete guide. Every field guide has its limitations, and those limitations become ...

Last week, while I gathered the onions and potatoes and the last of the tomatoes, I had the company of many small birds. Prominent among these were yellow-rumped warblers. These warblers are migrants ...

I recently introduced the many autumn birds that have now returned to our latitudes, the shorebirds, ducks, raptors, sparrows and other songbirds that journey south each fall. There are many of these ...