It has been awhile since I reviewed Esther Woolfson’s Corvus: A Life with Birds (I liked it), but the...

My most recent birding excursion to Guatemala was immensely improved by the addition of two invaluable items. With my...

If you have any plans to bird Mesoamerica you need to purchase A Guide to the Birds of Mexico...

Sometimes I feel like I lived a charmed life.  On Saturday, which is not my actual birthday but is...

Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species, by Mira...

The advent of advanced computing and the internet has been a incalculable boon to birders everywhere. However, the one...

I’m a New Yorker.  I was born in the Hudson Valley and grew up in the Catskills, went to...

Years ago, I wrote about the glaring homogeneity in North American birding circles and by glaring, I mean all...