One of my favorite holidays of the year is Super Bowl Sunday, the day the championship of the National Football League is decided. Why...

Birding, we can all agree here, is pretty terrific. Football, and by this I mean the kind we play in the U.S. of A.,...

A Texas travel writer by the name of Sean Paul Kelley has a terrific piece about birding in Texas Monthly magazine. Nature lovers will...

For such a large country, the United States has a shockingly low number of endemic bird species, perhaps only 15 in the contiguous 48...

We may be a full month into 2011, but the year is still too new to judge. Otherwise, my prediction would be the coming...

Jimmy Buffett has it right… a change in latitude can bring a change in attitude. The burden of a long winter and feet upon...

Looking for a place to initiate discussion or share something random yet compelling related to birds, birding, nature, or conservation? You’ve found it. Welcome...

These are dark times, when the most I can muster for my best bird of the weekend is a mere Black-capped Chickadee. Even worse,...