Two books, two authors, two countries bursting with neotropical avian diversity. Birds of Belize by Steve N. G. Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds...

Ontario is larger than Texas, more than 1 million square kilometers of forests, cities, wetlands, tundra, rivers and lakes. It borders the Hudson Bay...

How much do you know about owls? This isn’t a rhetorical question, think about it. I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my...

The documentary film The Central Park Effect premiered a little over ten years ago, showing the world that it’s possible to find avian magic...

Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration. It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation...

The first thing to note about the Field Guide to North American Flycatchers is the subtitle: Empidonax and Pewees. No Kingbirds, no Phoebes, no...

The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes...

I did not prepare properly when I went to the Galápagos. Reading over my email from that period, I can’t believe I ended up...