I see myself as an old school birder, which means that I do remember the times when good bird...

Denis Clavreul, artist, biologist, and Frenchman, got it into his head to follow the same paths blazed, in the...

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared...

This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Despite the absence of two major...

In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., a rural area in the eastern-central part of...

Do Brown-headed Cowbirds really smell like freshly baked sugar cookies? Do Dark-eyed Juncos really smell like leaves and dirt...

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. It was a...

Sri Lanka is a ‘must visit country’ for any keen birder. It is slightly larger than Costa Rica, and...