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

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

The beginning of April feels like the real beginning of spring, at least up in the northern latitudes. The...

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

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

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

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

Last week, I took you to the La Mesa reservoir, the higher-altitude of the two thorn-forest sites on my...