May is a time for birding. We have the slow weeks and months for reading, writing, and dreaming about the birds we’d rather be...

The header photo above is of our local Varied Sittella. Varied Sittellas are endemic to Australia and widespread across the mainland. However, their plumage...

The White-tailed Eagle is one of the easiest birds to observe in Belgrade, Serbia (almost guaranteed). There are about ten pairs around the city....

A fine idea for a nature book is promised by the title and subtitle:  Earth’s Wild Music:  Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the...

Within my self-imposed one hour birding radius around Morelia, I have so far seen 21 different hummingbirds (15 residents and 6 migratories). That may...

Jim Wright’s latest book is The Real James Bond, the biography of the ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming stole for his secret agent 007....

May has arrived. What other three words sound as sweet to a birder? Spring migration seems to be arriving late at my northern latitude,...

Picture this. You’re wandering through a park, minding your own business, and decide to take a short rest on a bench. You sit down....