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

I’ve written on this topic before, but I just can’t get it out of my head. And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought...

I cajoled my friends into a trip up to Polson to see the Snowy Owls. Besides the owls themselves, I promised them the best...

The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. It is vital to convey the full nuance of the facts, but...

So, let’s talk more about the Harris’s Sparrow. This big, chunky sparrow is one of Canada’s few endemic breeders (Wikipedia says the only one,...

No time for preambles, philosophical diversions, or fancy-pants literary techniques today: I’m back in Montana and we have more big news from my bird...

When I was a child, the Pileated Woodpecker was a bird that loomed large — both literally, as the biggest surviving woodpecker in the...

Not in any espionage sense. Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a...