In 1970, when the New York State Assembly voted to make the Eastern Bluebird the official state bird, a Democrat from the Bronx dissented: “Those of us who are city dwellers don’t know the bluebird—we ...

Tompkins County in New York State is arguably the best birded county in North America. Cornell University, with its Cornell Lab of Ornithology located there in Ithaca, has produced numerous ...