Author Archives: Carrie

Sherrida Woodley’s Quick Fall of Light is based on an intriguing premise – what if the extinction of the Passenger…

Putting nature on TV is a tricky business. First there is the inherent irony of getting people to sit on…

One of the great compulsions shared by nearly all varieties of nerd is the desire to share the objects of…

I got word of the Grace’s Warbler a bit late in the game. This is no one’s fault but my…

Any hummingbird in December in stoney Manhattan is a remarkable sight — after all, hummingbirds are such tropical-looking birds… Wait….

I’ve spent most of my time since Thanksgiving trying to get my semester wrapped up, which means I’ve spent quite…

Recently, I’ve reviewed a number of well-designed and interesting books on birds. Today, I bring you an equally lavish look…

October 13 found me doing something very unusual, even for me: learning about birds while watching an orchestra. The University…

I’ve long felt that birders, as a group, should have a greater appreciation for the book as a physical object…

When I was a child, we called them locusts. They appeared sometime between when we started to worry about the…