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Mike O’Connor is a syndicated avian expert and owner of the popular Bird Watcher’s General Store in Cape Cod. He’s also a very funny and informative writer, as indicated by his charming book, Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches? And Other Answers to Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask. Mr. O’Connor estimates that he’s [...]

In the long, slow, painful process of transferring content from the old version of this blog to the shiny, new one, I realize I’ve been remiss in promoting the first book on bird watching I ever read, one that happens to still stand as one of the funniest. The Verb ‘To Bird’ by Peter Cashwell [...]

Of the plenteous perks of publishing a birding blog, and rest assured, they are manifold, one of the best has to be the free stuff. I am, on occasion, granted the opportunity to review bird-related books or videos. Though this can sometimes, depending on the item, be a chore, more often than not, I get [...]