It’s a common birder story–stuck in a city on your way to another city with time to bird but...

It’s a freezing, quiet January morning in Denver, Colorado. The year is 2011 and I might be the only...

Bird pellets are wondrous things. Open them up and see tiny mammal skulls, teeny thigh bones, beetle wings, fusty...

You gotta love Cuckoos. Not just the Common Cuckoo or the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, you must love the whole family...

“You don’t like shorebirds?” my birding friend asked me in a tone of surprise, shock, and a tiny bit...

The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness is about birds and taxonomy, history and...

Now that we’ve all mastered the art of identifying Empidonax flycatchers thanks to a certain field guide published a...

Endangered. Extinction. Research. Conservation. These are the words that define so much of our conversations about the natural world...