"The Buffleheads are being difficult!" David Barrett, who runs the Manhattan Bird Alert Twitter, told me earlier this week as he tried to capture the newly arrived ducks in Central Park. They were ...

The huge problems facing humans (global warming, prejudice, terrorists, corporate power, the price of fresh vegetables) can be so overwhelming that they immobilize us into inaction. So it’s always ...

This unique diving duck has a small body and a relatively large head. The males are colorful and vibrant, with iridescent heads that appear black, purple, or green depending on the light. Buffleheads ...

The spring passage of waterfowl continued apace early in the week. Indeed, it may have reached its peak, as thousands of birds of a score – at least – of species moved into and beyond the Red River ...

A bufflehead was reported on Pleasant Lake in New London on July 25.It's a small duck, rarely seen in the state, whose normal range is in the Arctic and Canada.The males are mostly white with a black ...

It was the night that it rained ducks … thousands of them. For more than four hours on Monday, Nov. 4, 1940, ducks fell from the heavens in east-central Saskatchewan. People living in Foam Lake, ...