When I picked up a bottle of this week’s featured wine last March at a shop in southern Quebec (on my last trip out...

Photographic nature guides have been with us for a long time, but have reached their adulthood only recently. There are some magnificent photos of...

A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school.  He found some solace when, at age eleven,...

Ask any birder–migration is joy. It’s endless frustration that suddenly erupts into wild excitement, a reason to get up in the morning, a goal...

The adventure of the second European Breeding Bird Atlas, or EBBA2, was the topic of one of my first posts here at 10,000 Birds:...

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for “coronavirus 2019”) last February, many...

Of all the living things in our world to be passionate about, mushrooms may rate as the most unlikely. Ranging in color from off-white...

Since the 2nd edition of the Collins Bird Guide (published as “Birds of Europe” in the US) from 2009, the field guide market for...