“A stick! A stick!” With the pure energy of an almost two-year-old freed from weeks of isolation, my granddaughter...

Like most North American birders, I never pay much mind to the European (Common) Starling (Sturnus vulgaris). Sure, they’re...

Juniper is a decidely wintery spice, and its piquant, piney flavor is generally used to season game, offal, and...

From its boreal forest to steppes which once trembled under the hooves of Genghis Khan’s hordes, and from the...

In the course of our nearly weekly reviews here at Birds and Booze, we’ve come across an impressive variety...

“Look around, look around…” The refrain is from Hamilton, a demand and a plea to look with the brain...

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

It’s hard to believe that a few weeks ago I was checking the weather forecast every day, eagerly anticipating...