Fall introduces a cornucopia of sparrows and sparrow look-alikes. Juncos are easy enough to identify but the rest of the cryptic North American crew...

I received a disturbing e-mail from a reader last week: I came across something today that might be of interest to you and your...

A common misinterpretation of the devastatingly elegant Heisenberg uncertainty principle is that that observation of an event or phenomenon changes that event or phenomenon....

At last, we get to meet Bad Birdwatcher #2, the lucky reader who received our second free copy of How To Be A (Bad)...

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...