I announced last month that the kind folks at Pantheon Books gave me extra copies of Simon Barnes’ brilliant...

Just yesterday, I received a interesting plea for assistance: I googled birds + Puerto Rico and yours was the...

Now that the Core Team May warbler census (a colorful way to say that we did a lot of...

The sinuous, elegant image of a Great Egret echoed on the placid surface of the Spuyten Duyvil calls to...

Grackles are intimidating birds, there’s no denying it. With their dagger beaks, sinister strut, and evil yellow glare, they...

When the Core Team went birding this past weekend, we weren’t just looking for warblers. Rumor had it that...

The world is surely an odd place. Every day is thick with tales of woe and madness, a glut...

The taxonomic practice of speciation must be more art than science. After all, there are at least six distinct...