Denis Clavreul, artist, biologist, and Frenchman, got it into his head to follow the same paths blazed, in the first part of the nineteenth...

This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Despite the absence of two major publishers—Lynx and HMH–from the new...

Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not.  (Some, according to her, consider...

The subtitle of Jackie Higgins’ book Sentient:  How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses, aptly sets forth her thesis – though the...

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! Here are the picks...

You get three or four books in one with Jonathan Meiburg’s A Most Remarkable Creature:  The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s...

Those birders averse to using the phrase “seriously and irredeemably cute” to describe a wild bird – such people do exist, and are entitled...

Last year there was a spate of books specifically about bird “behavior” – though one might well say that every book about birds, from...