As winter moves into spring, we often hear the repeated tapping of woodpeckers that echoes from distant trees. This is...

Mockingbirds are a fixture in popular American culture. They provided inspiration for the Mockingjays in The Hunger Games. Harper Lee named...

Bird lovers throughout the Hudson Valley are watching for one of our area’s most beloved seasonal residents: the ruby-throated hummingbird....

The robin is the oneThat interrupts the mornWith hurried, few, express reportsWhen March is scarcely on. Virtually nobody signals the...

Northern cardinals have become a familiar and welcome sight to New Yorkers, particularly here in the Hudson Valley. The iconic...

There’s something especially heartbreaking about coming across an injured bird — a creature meant to soar that is suddenly suffering,...

As the weather cools off, crows flock to Poughkeepsie by the thousands to join a communal roost, a ritual that’s...

Few things in life draw the sort of deep-sigh feeling of awe as the sight of a majestic eagle soaring...

You might see a seagull over the Hudson River and think it’s amazing that these birds have come 50 or...

BEEMPP! BOOM!!  and again  BEEEMPP! BOOOM! On a warm June evening, I would take the kids down to Coxsackie to wait....

If you stand outside at about 9:30 p.m. and listen quietly, you might hear the distinctive “wheet” calls of the...

Jacqueline Dooley

“When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of...

In addition to facilitating travel across the Hudson River’s Tappan Zee, the New NY Bridge offers a seasonal home to...