I originally reserved this week’s featured wine for a Hallowe’en review that I never got around to writing. The 2013 ‘Tyto alba’ from Companhia...

This has been a great year!  For bird books, we mean – reference works and field guides, books of essays and reminiscences, novels, and...

There are owls in New York City. Big owls: Barred Owls on Riverside Drive and down the path from Harlem Meer, a Great Horned...

By now, it’s quite clear that the American Thanksgiving holiday of 2020 – which falls next Thursday – will be quite unlike Thanksgiving in...

For several years I lived and birded in the south of Africa, and still have my battered second edition (1997) of the Sasol Birds...

This year has been bountiful in books about bird behavior (reference and otherwise) from the likes of David Allen Sibley, Helen Macdonald, Jennifer Ackerman,...

In the midst of a global pandemic, medical professionals have been heralded as heroes, with some even rising to the status of pop culture...

Usually when I think of unseasonably mild autumn weather, I picture a last gasp of summer manifesting itself with an early fall heat wave...