Why can’t I shut up about this? In 1999, a woman named Jennifer Price published a fascinating — if since largely forgotten — book...

Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration. It was...

So last week I was in Sardinia. Many fine wines were drunk, and many fine meals were eaten. We also looked at some racing...

I’ve been privileged to review some very beautiful coffee-table type books for 10,000 Birds. But when you get a volume from National Geographic, it’s...

Everyone knows this one. Way, way back, during our inuagural game of Gone Birding, my friend Molly developed a theory of birds. There were,...

Not an urban legend From the time I was a small child, I would flip through the pages of field guides and imagine the...

It’s that time of year again. Sidewalks are speckled, cars are spattered. Flocks of Cedar Waxwings are buzzing everywhere, streaked juveniles mingling with creamy...

Most readers here will be familiar with the plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, a critically endangered wader that nests on the Russian tundra and...