Once upon a time, back in the heady, innocent days of 2014, I reviewed a book called The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds....

A lot of my friends have been having babies lately. Being an unmarried lady, I of course have no idea how this could be...

The hardest part of reviewing this jacket, much like the hardest part of birding itself, was reckoning with the perversity of Mother Nature. Though...

Some updates from the comments sections! On the Limpkin, the ever-sagicious Rick Wright points out that the ‘gait’ explanation may well be a folk...

As my faithful readers know, I have a long-standing fascination with helping (and, at times, inadvertently confusing) interested non-birders – those who are entering...

Well, I never did see a Black-backed Woodpecker on my trip, but they were on my mind… What could be more straightforward than the...

Boreal Chickadees. Ruffed Grouse. Black-backed Woodpeckers. Even in the off-season, a trip to the Adirondacks promises a bevy of delights for the downstate birder....

As this series has already shown us, ornithological nomenclature is often a game of utter nepotism. Got a buddy whose birthday you forgot? Thinking...