New York City’s Central Park is the place to bird watch during the Fall Migration. With its unique habitats it offers birders spectacular views of migrating birds.

On the afternoon of November 15, 2023, a Randall’s Island Park worker spotted a hummingbird at the Urban Farm, a popular picnicking

Although major urban parks like Central Park and Prospect Park may attract and concentrate large quantities of migratory landbirds…

The vagrant Painted Bunting in Prospect Park…

I’ve always wondered what my 400th bird species in New York State would be. Thirty something years into this life of birding would imply it had to be something good. Unless of course, it’s not.

The birding world, of which Central Park is a microcosm that I entered into in May 1932, is incomparable to today’s world.

To bird the Hudson at the end of 23rd Street you pass through Chelsea Waterside Park…

Oyster Bay, Long Island

Mallards and Wood Ducks are the most common breeding ducks in New Jersey. While both species breed in fresh water habitats throughout the state, their life styles are quite different…

Sometime during the spring migration of 2003 a fellow birder pointed out a House Wren nest near the Andrew Haswell Green bench in the north end of Central Park. It was inside the hollow branch of an otherwise healthy tree…