In six or seven months, the “best books of the year” features will come out in the important print and web publications.  They will...

A fine idea for a nature book is promised by the title and subtitle:  Earth’s Wild Music:  Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the...

A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school.  He found some solace when, at age eleven,...

This has been a great year!  For bird books, we mean – reference works and field guides, books of essays and reminiscences, novels, and...

This year has been bountiful in books about bird behavior (reference and otherwise) from the likes of David Allen Sibley, Helen Macdonald, Jennifer Ackerman,...

In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American...

If you’re out in the woods this spring, trying to see the Woodcock (like that below, left) in the evening, doing his skydance, or...

Reviewed regularly on this blogsite are: (1) bird identification guides, visual and sonic; (2) books about living with birds or caring for rescued birds;...