Laura's Birding Blog

Saving dessert till last! On January 28, I went out to the Sax-Zim Bog with my friend Bruce Pomeroy. We both wanted to see some norther...

Every year at the end of January I start considering whether I made the right New Year's resolution, and how well I’m sticking to it....

Bald Eagles attracted to any form of roadkill are more vulnerable to being killed by cars, too. When I was researching 101 Ways to Help ...

Western Scrub-Jay Back in 2012, a paper in the journal Animal Behavior  presented a study about Western Scrub-Jays titled “Western sc...

My trusty Golden Guide, which made me lust to see an Ivory Gull. On Friday, January 2, there was a post on the ABA Rare Bird Alert on F...

The Barnacle Goose, shown in my first edition Golden Guide. Last month, when I was in New York City, in Brooklyn, visiting my daughter...

In July 1998, I got a Bichon Frise puppy named Photon . She instantly became my birding companion and plucky sidekick—she and I birded toge...

What, watching me is hazardous? On a frigid December morning when I’m snug indoors, sipping hot coffee at my window as I watch my bac...

In 1996, when Roger Tory Peterson died, the Swedish Council of America wanted to publish a tribute to the famous Swede's life in their m...

From the time I was a very little girl, I wondered about bird tongues. Well, actually, I wondered about all tongues. Dog tongues lolled ou...