Leading a WINGS tour in New Mexico, Gavin and Derek rediscovered the Barnacle Goose in Colfax Co., New Mexico, this morning.
Sightings of this lovely Old World species in North America are always clouded by rumors of captive origin, but ever since I saw one on my local patch in New Jersey, lo these many ago, [...]

Well, it’s not the big news it would have been just a couple of years ago, but one of these wandering Scott’s Orioles has made it to Manhattan. The bird is said to have appeared more than a month ago, but was just identified today.
Nice one!

Here are the best (not quite the right word, perhaps) photos of the Cackling Goose we observed in the Sulphur Springs Valley Sunday. [Edit: as it turns out, Harry, who probably knows more about the field identification of these blasted white-cheeks than anyone else, has identified the bird as a parvipes Canada Goose. Thanks, Harry! [...]

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Wings Over Willcox has always been one of the best birding festivals around, and this year was no exception: good company, good weather, good birding!
I was fortunate enough to squeak onto the bus Friday for Tom and Moez’s trip into the high Chiricahuas. Both our leaders did their usual exemplary job, and not even the [...]