We are fast approaching what is, for me, one of the most poignant times of the year. It’s when...

I have commented before on the privilege and pain of living in a state (Michoacán, Mexico) which hosts 10...

Birders are utterly suspicious characters. By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. But,...

Many years ago, when I was a young and stupid Masters student in Conservation Biology, I was given the...

There are no swifts in Missoula. Except when there are. When there are is migration, and it is happening...

When I was a kid, my dad called them “flying stoagies”, something he picked up from an old ornithology...

What a wonderful way to get people interested in birds!

While eating the nests of swifts is nothing new, the large-scale production of these nests is.  Already a $200...