In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., a rural area in the eastern-central part of the state. Although Henslow’s had...

Tim Birkhead loves to tell stories. They may be about bird eggs (The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg,...

I understood that my favourite, and in my opinion the very best field guide series in the world – Lynx & Birdlife International –...

Do Brown-headed Cowbirds really smell like freshly baked sugar cookies? Do Dark-eyed Juncos really smell like leaves and dirt or “ferns and Celestial Seasonings’...

After testing both Swarovski NL Pure 10×42 and 12×42, I – a self-confessed lover of smallish full-size binoculars, felt the urge to try the...

When I got this bottle of American Sour Red from the Collective Brewing Project of Fort Worth, Texas as a gift a few months...

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. It was a one-story square building, four sides...

Sri Lanka is a ‘must visit country’ for any keen birder. It is slightly larger than Costa Rica, and in the most strategic places...