Author Archives: Carrie

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…

Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change. The task of wrestling…

“Self,” I said to myself, “it is Thursday. You have used up all your New York blogging material. You need…

So, in the face of my inevitable return to the mountain strongholds of Missoula, I now have one bird that…

Returning to New York, however briefly, has been a joyful reunion — not just with old friends, but with my…

Since I don’t drive, the vast majority of my birding is self-propelled. Biking and most especially walking tend to accustom…

“An island in the Adriatic Sea, called Diomedea, is home to a great number of shearwaters, which, it is said,…

The first time I saw a Western Tanager, it was in New York. In Central Park, to be exact. It…

As the name suggests, the National Bison Range is mostly known for its large mammals. Besides the American bison that…