We are fast approaching what is, for me, one of the most poignant times of...

I have commented before on the privilege and pain of living in a state (Michoacán,...

Birders are utterly suspicious characters. By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken...

Many years ago, when I was a young and stupid Masters student in Conservation Biology,...

There are no swifts in Missoula. Except when there are. When there are is migration,...

When I was a kid, my dad called them “flying stoagies”, something he picked up...

What a wonderful way to get people interested in birds!

While eating the nests of swifts is nothing new, the large-scale production of these nests...