Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA.  who can be found regularly at the bird and...

At last, my world is back on its usual academic year axis, spinning on a schedule I expect to...

Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas, noting a need for further research...

Let’s just start this post with the answer someone googling this info will need: You do not need to...

The verdant Appalachian Mountains, North America’s concerned forehead, stretch from the northern parts of Georgia all the way to...

Labor Day weekend has passed, the kids are back in school, and it is now (un)officially autumn in the...

You are wandering through a tropical rainforest. It is late morning and the humidity seems to rise with every...

Kestrels may be the coolest raptors nobody knows of. In North America, everyone recognizes hawks on the wing, even...