Reviewed regularly on this blogsite are: (1) bird identification guides, visual and sonic; (2) books about living with birds...

Well what’s the big deal, you might ask? I see those all the time. But you’ve never seen one...

Once upon a time, in the hazy past of 2013, I was asked to write a zombie story. This...

Tragically, McSweeney’s doesn’t have quite enough hard-core birders in the audience to appreciate this. But I thought you guys...

The early teen years are prime time for kids to adopt environmentalism as a cause. The human sense of...

Will you indulge me for a minute? (Of course you will. You always do.) In speaking of Take Wing...

For some reason, this post did not go up in August when it was scheduled. My apologies to Mr....

The room was dark, damp, cold, and smelled of peanut butter. Mark came awake on a thin mattress on...