I try not to think in terms of a “year list”. I try not to think in terms of listing in general. If you...

This is the crazy winter period, the time of Christmas Bird Count scouting, birding, counting and compiling. And then there are the activities we...

Several years ago I asked one of my birding mentors, a curmudgeon with an enviable life list, if he was a bird watcher, a...

I spent the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the usual post-hurricane activities—looking for storm birds, making sure my loved ones were o.k., trying to...

If it’s October, then it is time to look up. Look up for migrants, look up for confusing fall warblers, but, most of all,...

There are two things you need to know about A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia, edited by Robert Burton and John...

“Peek!” Plunk. “Peek!” Plop. “Peek!” Plip. These were the sounds I heard as I walked around a small pond in Amherst, Massachusetts last week,...

Several years ago, I was asked to visit my nephew’s preschool class and talk about birds. I was delighted by the invitation and spent...