The Daily Mail reports the discovery of a new, brightly colored bird on a remote mountain range in South America, the difficult-to-pronounce Yariguies Brush...

Did you know that this Sunday, October 8, is the 14th annual Big Sit! (exclamation point added by the organizers, not me.) The Big...

Club George: Diary of a Central Park Bird-watcher is based on an engaging premise, something of a twist on the classic romance structure. The...

The Outdoor Industry Foundation 2006 Outdoor Recreation Participation Study was released in August, but I didn’t know about this study until Mike McDowell blogged...

Adding a second child, even a healthy one like my lovely and robust Ivy, to the Core Team has ensured that we’ve been seeing...

One of the most compelling reasons to take up bird watching doesn’t include birds at all. You see, no bird is an island. Every...

When shorebird season arrives, one group you should keep your eyes open for, no matter where on Earth you call home (unless for some...

A couple of months ago, in my determined (some might say obsessive) effort to exert some sense of sorely needed structure on this site,...