The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that...

High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. A very specific type of weather–north winds, a cold...

It was a cold afternoon in Maine, and I was looking at the Steller’s Sea-Eagle perched on a tall...

With spring migration near (though for some nearer than others, looking at you birders in the south), I thought...

Turtles are the reptile everybody loves. At the very least appreciated for their hard-shell adaptation, the way they quietly...

The American Birding Association has declared that 2022 is the year of the Burrowing Owl, but if Rosemary Mosco...

Once upon a time, bird field guides included nests. This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian...

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. This shouldn’t have to be stated, especially...