Be warned, The Atlas of Birds is not a map book, though it does contain maps, lovely orange and purple and green bird distribution...

Can you believe that it hasn’t even been a year since Richard Crossley and Princeton University Press unleashed The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds on the birding public?...

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...