I announced last month that the kind folks at Pantheon Books gave me extra copies of Simon Barnes’ brilliant How To Be A (Bad)...

Just yesterday, I received a interesting plea for assistance: I googled birds + Puerto Rico and yours was the first and best site to...

Now that the Core Team May warbler census (a colorful way to say that we did a lot of birding this month) has concluded,...

The sinuous, elegant image of a Great Egret echoed on the placid surface of the Spuyten Duyvil calls to mind the following quote by...

Grackles are intimidating birds, there’s no denying it. With their dagger beaks, sinister strut, and evil yellow glare, they often seem as if they’d...

When the Core Team went birding this past weekend, we weren’t just looking for warblers. Rumor had it that sparrows beyond the typical House...

The world is surely an odd place. Every day is thick with tales of woe and madness, a glut of spin and sin that...

The taxonomic practice of speciation must be more art than science. After all, there are at least six distinct and recognizable populations of Dark-eyed...