When you bird afar and wander wide, you carry a field guide to the birds of the region you are exploring, a pair of...

Nature enthusiasts visiting Costa Rica have been blessed with a plethora of field guides and handbooks, from Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean’s The Birds...

I thought we had bid farewell to Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) for the year with last week’s post, but we’ll have them back one...

To paraphrase Aristotle via Aldo Leopold, one swallow does not a summer make, but zero swallows, that is fall. That at least holds mostly...

Every now and then you read a book which you believe should be read by everyone on the planet. Nature’s Best Hope by American...

Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land...

Some people read cookbooks though they have no intention of whipping up a mushroom risotto, some people read bird guide books, even when the...

You get three or four books in one with Jonathan Meiburg’s A Most Remarkable Creature:  The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s...