In about five weeks, a group of thickly-clad birders carrying scopes, cameras, and binoculars will gather on the shore of Lake Michigan, at North...

Britannica defines winter as the coldest season of the year, extending from the winter solstice, December 21 or 22, to the vernal equinox, March...

It’s a common birder story–stuck in a city on your way to another city with time to bird but little preparation on where to...

It’s a freezing, quiet January morning in Denver, Colorado. The year is 2011 and I might be the only person left in the hotel....

Bird pellets are wondrous things. Open them up and see tiny mammal skulls, teeny thigh bones, beetle wings, fusty feathers, squirrel hair, reptile scales,...

You gotta love Cuckoos. Not just the Common Cuckoo or the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, you must love the whole family Cuculidae, all 32 general and...

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

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