As the peak of spring migration in the northern hemisphere, May is always an exciting but exhausting month for birders in North America. For...

If you’re out in the woods this spring, trying to see the Woodcock (like that below, left) in the evening, doing his skydance, or...

We’re nothing if not unfailingly predictable here at Birds and Booze. So, it’s always late November when we trot out the turkey-themed drinks to...

The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult,...

“Oh, sweet Canada, Canada, Canada” is perhaps the best-best known of birdsong mnemonics in North America, familiar to birders as an aid to remembering...

Having more than 1300 bird species, including over 75 endemics, it is hard to resist the lure of India – something I know from...

I can’t imagine what life must be like during the current viral pandemic for those unlucky souls who don’t bird. Certainly, all this isolation...

I don’t have a proper post ready for you today, meaning there’s no customary Birds and Booze story and review for now. No, I...