Pigeons apparently tend to follow the bird best at navigating, or at least that is the crux of a forthcoming Nature article based on...

Though the idea that mimics learn their sounds from other species might seem painfully obvious (why else call them mimics?) the theory had not...

Now that Daisy and I have a child our number of visits upstate have lessened dramatically.  The thirty-minute subway ride to Manhattan followed by...

An old section of an elementary school in Indiana is to be torn down this summer, a section that includes a chimney long used...

My job, union job that it is, is lousy with holidays.  Our contract is solid enough that we get Good Friday off – even...

In a shocking development, some European birders have finally admitted what some clued-in American birders have suspected for quite some time; the Short-toed Treecreeper...

Imagine coming home to find seventy-six dead starlings in one’s garden.  That is what happened to Julie Knight of Coxley, Somerset, England, recently.  One...

You may remember that back in January I rejoined the Bloggerhead Kingbirds and competed in my second Superbowl of Birding.  You may also, if...