When I picked up a bottle of this week’s featured wine last March at a shop in southern Quebec...

Photographic nature guides have been with us for a long time, but have reached their adulthood only recently. There...

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

Ask any birder–migration is joy. It’s endless frustration that suddenly erupts into wild excitement, a reason to get up...

The adventure of the second European Breeding Bird Atlas, or EBBA2, was the topic of one of my first...

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for...

Of all the living things in our world to be passionate about, mushrooms may rate as the most unlikely....

Since the 2nd edition of the Collins Bird Guide (published as “Birds of Europe” in the US) from 2009,...