Do you realize that you have only 9 more shopping days (and counting) until Christmas? Maybe you don’t celebrate the modern Yule holiday or...

The concept of endemism, as it pertains to ecologists (and birders are nothing if not amateur ecologists), is tossed around somewhat carelessly.  Seemingly simply...

When I was a kid, my mother used to recite a poem every time it was about to snow in Indiana: “The North Wind...

Consider this installment of Best Bird of the Weekend the one-handed edition. That describes my typing style after last week’s shoulder surgery. So let...

Year-end lists! Woo! What follows is my attempt to highlight 10 significant changes in world bird taxonomy proposed or formalized in 2010. As you...

I have been working for an international airline for 26 years now. In that time I have witnessed the rolling out ceremonies for new...

Cyprus is a divided land — it is home to the last divided capital in Europe, and the entire island is separated into two,...

December is here, and with it has come over a foot of snow in my part of the world. Can boreal birds be far...