It was in the great borough of Queens in New York City that I first discovered both beer and birding, two great loves of...

I first encountered Molly Hashimoto’s bird art in California. Her lively block prints adorn calendars, note cards, puzzles, and children’s books, very much in...

I was really looking forward to this week’s installment of Birds and Booze. Last night was Hallowe’en, making tomorrow – in some Christian traditions...

In our times, it seems foolish to be fearful of birds. It’s an hopeful point of view, perhaps, but I like to think that...

A holiday in Cambodia? With 600+ bird species and a two-week trip with possibly a 250 species-list (the best sites are in the northwest...

This is the first October in three years I haven’t been vacationing in California. But I felt I should at least return in spirit...

Why do people become birders? There must be an endless number of individual reasons, and an endless number of stories worth telling about it...

Birders know that the pairing of farms and birds represents more than mere bucolic romance – it’s a match borne out of a real...