I recently read Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, a book by Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster. For anyone who has...

Winter doesn’t officially begin for a few weeks yet, but the birds this far north don’t seem to care about the calendar. We’re seeing...

Having returned from the UK recently we were ready to go camping in the bush again and make the most of the warm weather...

It may be a sore subject, but which beat gets the honour of recording a new species onto the life and year list? Corey,...

At last, we flip to the final page of our antiquated paper calendars and are forced to confront the painful but inevitable reality: we...

We conduct four Christmas Bird Counts in our part of Northern California, the first of which is the Fall River Christmas Bird Count coming...

At long last, we can put all that stuffing and gratitude behind us. The only thing we Americans, a curious people to be sure,...

On our recent visit to the UK we did a lot of walking and birding and Mum is very familiar with many of the...