“You don’t like shorebirds?” my birding friend asked me in a tone of surprise, shock, and a tiny bit...

The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness is about birds and taxonomy, history and...

Now that we’ve all mastered the art of identifying Empidonax flycatchers thanks to a certain field guide published a...

Endangered. Extinction. Research. Conservation. These are the words that define so much of our conversations about the natural world...

I don’t remember where I first learned about Elizabeth Gould–possibly when I was birding Doi Angkhang, Thailand and saw...

Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. Author Gerald L....

Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book. The idea is to portray one bird for each...

Tern lovers rejoice! A new book about the angelic-looking, identification-stumping birds of the oceans, rivers, and marshes has finally...