Have you ever looked to the sky and seen a high-flying hawk and wanted to know what it was?  Do you wish you could...

Anarchy – discontent – upheaval! Desperate fights over territory, water, and food! Poisoned air! Unhappiness! I fear we are lost. We must do something!...

Recently, I’ve reviewed a number of well-designed and interesting books on birds. Today, I bring you an equally lavish look at a group bipeds...

I confess, I don’t always love hawks.  Sure, they’re beautiful and powerful, a reminder of the feral freedom of the skies. They’re also confoundingly...

The Big Year was alright.  It was neither horrible nor outstanding, neither fully factual nor completely made-up, neither completely engaging nor totally alienating.  I...

I’ve long felt that birders, as a group, should have a greater appreciation for the book as a physical object – all those years...

Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change. The task of wrestling this topic down into...

“An island in the Adriatic Sea, called Diomedea, is home to a great number of shearwaters, which, it is said, neither harm the barbarians...