Thousands of shorebirds roosted on the mud flats of the impoundment at Heislerville Wildlife Management Area along the Delaware Bay shore in southern New Jersey. Maybe the number was more like tens of ...

Looking across the expanse of water, I saw nothing with my eyes but much with the memories of my heart. Owls caught my interest when I was a 7-year-old second grader; they caught my heart when I was a ...

There are 61 species in the sandpiper family that frequent the wetlands and wade marshes, mud flats or shorelines in search of food throughout our continent. Birds in this family are called shorebirds ...

Rare albino curlew sandpiper spotted during birdwatching walk at TS Chanakya in Navi Mumbai, thrilling local birders. Here is more to know about it ...

When a wintering bird doubles back to its breeding grounds to attend to the visceral business of procreation, it becomes essentially “unreachable” for the human friends it has made in its wintering ...

The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis) was a grassland species of shore bird in the sandpiper family. This curlew had warm brown or cinnamon colored feathers with white speckles. Its primary wing ...