One summer my father came to visit from his home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He is the handiest of handy guys; he has fixed...

Mating systems and parental care patterns can be odd among birds. Male-female role reversal, happens in some familiar birds, but is rare. Less than...

Treeswifts are funny little things. They’re swifts, only they aren’t, actually. When they were first described they were thought to be a link between...

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated...

Back in January, when I was enjoying my attendance at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival down in Titusville, Florida, I had an...

James Russell Lowell famously wondered, “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days…” Of course, he...

What is it about Owls that casts such a spell over folk? If there is one order of birds that is guaranteed to draw involuntary gasps...

September is a ‘tweener month, straddling two seasons and belonging entirely to neither. Helen Hunt Jackson describes this delectable transition in a poem entitled, what else, September:...