Birds of Colombia (Lynx and BirdLife International Field Guides) by Steven L. Hilty “Sadly, a few specimens, salvaged from these shipments, were so rare...

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Whether they hail from the New World or the Old, orioles are undoubtedly fond of fruit. Of the thirty or so members of the...

True, it’s not even yet midsummer and we’re still more than half a year away from Christmas. But I do have a perfectly valid...

Last year there was a spate of books specifically about bird “behavior” – though one might well say that every book about birds, from...