I’ve been privileged to review some very beautiful coffee-table type books for 10,000 Birds. But when you get a volume from National Geographic, it’s...

If it’s October, then it is time to look up. Look up for migrants, look up for confusing fall warblers, but, most of all,...

Most readers here will be familiar with the plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, a critically endangered wader that nests on the Russian tundra and...

There are two things you need to know about A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia, edited by Robert Burton and John...

Puffins! Do you want to know about them? I mean, really, really know about them? Of course you do. The Atlantic Puffin is one...

“Peek!” Plunk. “Peek!” Plop. “Peek!” Plip. These were the sounds I heard as I walked around a small pond in Amherst, Massachusetts last week,...

It is not every day that a birder gets to play with a prototype scope made by one of the premiere optics companies in...

Several years ago, I was asked to visit my nephew’s preschool class and talk about birds. I was delighted by the invitation and spent...