A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school.  He found some solace when, at age eleven,...

I will soon be just one year short of Sir Paul McCartney’s mythical musical age (64, that is, not his current age), in which...

In many ways, birding has led me straight to my new interest in wildflowers.  Looking for birds naturally makes you more aware of your...

The beginning of April feels like the real beginning of spring, at least up in the northern latitudes. The plot may unfold painfully slowly,...

The highway heading south from Broome continues to offer great birdwatching opportunities. The landscape remains flooded, so you can only just go to the...

It is slightly weird that when I first saw the name of the virus, I misread it as Corvid-19. Is that just a birder...

I am not crazy about alliterations. They seem a poor device, suitable for children’s books but not for refined literature. After all, there is...

As ambiguous as the title of this piece sounds, a foray into the ornithological literature may lead to even more confusion. The family Furnariidae...