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

I did not prepare properly when I went to the Galápagos. Reading over my email from that period, I...

Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time! Baby birds are...

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared...

Australia has a lot of birds. The “Working List of Australian Birds, v.4,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016...

In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., a rural area in the eastern-central part of...

Tim Birkhead loves to tell stories. They may be about bird eggs (The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and...

Do Brown-headed Cowbirds really smell like freshly baked sugar cookies? Do Dark-eyed Juncos really smell like leaves and dirt...