Australia has a lot of birds. The “Working List of Australian Birds, v.4,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016...

In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., a rural area in the eastern-central part of...

Tim Birkhead loves to tell stories. They may be about bird eggs (The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and...

Do Brown-headed Cowbirds really smell like freshly baked sugar cookies? Do Dark-eyed Juncos really smell like leaves and dirt...

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. It was a...

The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that...

High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. A very specific type of weather–north winds, a cold...

It was a cold afternoon in Maine, and I was looking at the Steller’s Sea-Eagle perched on a tall...