Recently, I’ve reviewed a number of well-designed and interesting books on birds. Today, I bring you an equally lavish look at a group bipeds...

October 13 found me doing something very unusual, even for me: learning about birds while watching an orchestra. The University of Montana Symphonic Wind...

I’ve long felt that birders, as a group, should have a greater appreciation for the book as a physical object – all those years...

When I was a child, we called them locusts. They appeared sometime between when we started to worry about the water level in the...

Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change. The task of wrestling this topic down into...

“Self,” I said to myself, “it is Thursday. You have used up all your New York blogging material. You need something to write about.”...

So, in the face of my inevitable return to the mountain strongholds of Missoula, I now have one bird that I can count on...

Returning to New York, however briefly, has been a joyful reunion — not just with old friends, but with my beloved, quirky New York...