Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA.  who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. However, he’s...

At last, my world is back on its usual academic year axis, spinning on a schedule I expect to enjoy as days wane then...

Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas, noting a need for further research on the subject. The post...

Let’s just start this post with the answer someone googling this info will need: You do not need to take your hummingbird feeder in...

The verdant Appalachian Mountains, North America’s concerned forehead, stretch from the northern parts of Georgia all the way to the fir covered forests of...

Labor Day weekend has passed, the kids are back in school, and it is now (un)officially autumn in the United States no matter how...

You are wandering through a tropical rainforest. It is late morning and the humidity seems to rise with every step. Life is crawling, buzzing,...

Kestrels may be the coolest raptors nobody knows of. In North America, everyone recognizes hawks on the wing, even the ones that aren’t Red-tailed...