In principle, weekends should generally improve upon what the everyday work week has to offer. In practice, though, some weekends are just more awesome...

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere seems to be leaving few areas unscathed. Whether you’re getting too much rain or not enough, you’re probably spending...

Any worthwhile discussion of baby birds will wisely lean heavily towards young shorebirds, which are surely among the most adorable of all immature avifauna....

Summer birding gets a bad rap, especially around here, but July offers one highlight. The further north of the equator one travels, the more...

Ambrose Bierce, one of my literary heroes, crafted a supremely cynical lexicon called The Devil’s Dictionary. Though it’s over 100 years old, the work...

Am I the only one having a hard time remembering whether I’m dealing with a weekday or a weekend? The mid-week Independence Day celebration...

The ongoing online debate about whether Old World or New World warblers are more wonderful isn’t just confined to 10,000 Birds. Round Robin, the...

Have you ever enjoyed one of those brilliant birding expeditions, the outing where every target species takes its cue with machine precision? Of course...