Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. This ridiculous focus of the Birding Internet on North American...

        There’s an apartment building just across the alley from mine. It’s a real…”fixer upper” to...

It’s a sign, I think, when I receive a book to review and realize I just bought the same...

North Americans may find this hard to believe, but the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is beloved around the world...

I haven’t been birding yet in 2013. Oh, I’ve gotten my first bird of the year (European Starling –...

The celebration of Columbus Day in the United States has become somewhat contentious over the years as people have...

For far too long there has been a bird that North American birders have mocked, derided, persecuted, hated, and,...

New York City, June 2008 The title of this post pretty much says it all. A couple of weeks...