Deborah Allen sends photos of Gyrfalcons, Golden Eagles and other rare raptors from our recent trip to the short grass prairie of South Dako

Up until the 1960s most waterfowl species were rare in NYC. Indeed the Canada Goose was an occasional flyover Central Park until the the mid

In 1936, New Yorker magazine published an article on nesting Barn Owls in the Bronx, and the man (Irving Kassoy) who studied them. We send t

We present a summary of the weather in NYC for November-December 2019, as well as articles about Crossbills in upper Manhattan (1899), and p

This has been a mild January so far, and southern birds such as Painted Buntings can be found in our area. We send photos of this fair weath

We present the December 1919 Christmas Bird Count from the NYC area to show what birds were commonly found in early winter one hundred years

We present historical Christmas Bird Count results from 1919 in NYC including three from Central Park. There are so many more birds seen now

Lots of bird walks coming up: Owl walks on several nights including Christmas and New Years evenings - check the Newsletter info or the sche

Besides Hummingbirds and the Needletail Swifts, no other group of birds has impressed us as the Albatrosses of New Zealand. We document five

November is the beginning of the slow winter season - but there are always surprises. We compare what we've seen so far to November 1982

For only the second time in the history of Central Park, a Purple Gallinule was seen...some 90 years after the first. We present the history

Since people began looking for birds in NYC, the Orange-crowned Warbler has always been one of the rarer species seen in both spring and aut

Late October is a time of surprises in NYC from rare sparrows (two Vesper Sparrows and a Lark Sparrow were seen in Central Park this week),

Mid-October marks a change in birding Central Park: with cooler weather, the 9:30am walks are just as good as the early (7:30am) ones. And n

We are adding an Owl walk at 6pm this Sunday night (13 October), the night before Columbus Day. In our Newsletter, we present info on an ext

Sometimes a bird walk is interrupted by interesting events - usually it is an amazing bird! This week, there was someone who physically assa

We present the ancient birders fairy tail of the Cuckoo and GOAT in Central Park. Meanwhile, Emmet Logan writes what it was like to be home

We enter the time of the autumn when the most migrants can be seen in the New York City area from warblers and vireos to raptors including o

September-October is prime season for bird migration. If you want to see warblers, now through mid-October is your season. No other group fi

We briefly trace the history of the study of the night migration of birds here in NYC. First at the Statue of Liberty after lights were inst