I purchased my first Sibley—The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America—in 2003. It was my second field guide, and I quickly...

Perfect is a big word, and using it right in the title of your book invites close scrutiny. Tim Birkhead, a respected ornithologist with...

Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide by Sébastien Reeber is an exhaustively comprehensive reference book that is sure to bring...

As a child of the eighties, I experienced a number of elegies for Whooping Cranes. Commentators seemed to take their extinction as inevitable, although...

Once upon a time, back in the heady, innocent days of 2014, I reviewed a book called The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds....

It’s time for some short book reviews. Well, short for me. All of these titles deal with birding in specific North American geographic areas:...

The hardest part of reviewing this jacket, much like the hardest part of birding itself, was reckoning with the perversity of Mother Nature. Though...

I like 8x30s. I started with one such pair, until I capsized my kayak and had to swim to the riverbank with bins around...