A year ago, we presented a barleywine, a very strong beer, as a stand-in for the traditional Champagne in...

A couple of the biggest of bird families are restricted to the Americas. Both can be found in nearly...

For all its enduring appeal as the perfect summer table fruit, the strawberry only seldom embarks on the hopeful...

If you like birds and you also like . . . Oh, wait. I already know that you like...

The Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) visits my home every year about this time. Of course the males come first to...

The yellow blooms of spring are nodding, and the pinks and reds are awakening: my signal that it’s time...

Costa Rica is a fantastic place to watch hummingbirds. Imagine forty plus resident species of this esteemed family zipping...

It was already dark in mid-October when we arrived to the Costa Rican birding mecca of Rancho Naturalista to...