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

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

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

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

Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change. The task of...

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

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

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