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...

Penguins! Penguins here! <pause> Do I have your attention now? There are few bird names that will elicit great big smiles and Penguin is...

At the risk of yet again reinforcing our predictable North American slant at Booze and Birds, it has to be noted that this year’s...