No, not because they are sick of Governor Rick Perry, but, it is believed, because warming temperatures are forcing them north.  Species as diverse...

Gerald Manley Hopkins, Englishman, Catholic convert, priest, and poet, was born in 1844 and died of typhoid fever in 1889.  In between he wrote,...

Folks might remember that last year I did what I grandly called an Anti-Global Warming Big Year, the idea of which was was to...

New York City is full of surprises.  For example, did you know that John James Audubon, you know, THE John James Audubon, the nineteenth-century...

I’m going to be in Lansing, Michigan, for two days next week for work and will have a couple of hours open one evening...

On Saturday I met up with Patrick, that nice guy from The Hawk Owl’s Nest, at Jamaica Bay for some birding.  Unfortunately, the birds...

Long ago I promised an extensive gallery of Boat-billed Herons Cochlearius cochlearius but I never got around to it.  Now that the summer doldrums...

A great article on what all those acres of parking really cost.  If only the money put into parking spaces and highways were put...