Birds on the brain

The Trindade Petrel (formerly considered to be a subspecies of "Herald Petrel" in the Pacific) is one of those scarce Gadfly, o...

 I gaze over Gulf Stream waters from the bow of the Stormy Petrel II and see nothing but endless blue swells.  In the calm there are no bird...

I knew a lady who came from Duluth She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth For some reason the word 'Duluth' always brings to my...

The rough seas from the passage of Tropical Storm Andrea cancelled Saturday's pelagic trip, but the storm had left the outer banks litt...

Mark K. was sitting down for some sushi at Carolina Beach in New Hanover County, NC one evening after a day of birding when his friend ...

Last weekend Mark K., Ali Iyoob, Natalia Ocampo-Penuela, Jacob Socolar and I birded around Boone for some of the tough-to-find birds that...

Somehow I ended up birding the NC mountains last weekend. Why?  Evening Grosbeaks I blame Mark K.  I had resigned myself to never se...

The eternal grouse question for birders in North Carolina is more typically "why can't I ever see one?"  And for folks who do...

Counting Shorebirds for the International Shorebird Survey - photo by Mark Kosiewski Bear Island is one of the few remaining undevelope...