I’ve been on record for years as endorsing David Allen Sibley’s masterwork, The Sibley Guide to Birds as the first and foremost reference guide...
Shorebird season is upon us once again and with the waves of undifferentiated brown and gray birds arrives yet another resource by which to...
How does one end up with a Great Blue Heron in one’s bathroom? Or spending hard-earned cash on medication for a Wild Turkey with...
Summer really is quiet. I loved Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, the biography of Phoebe Snetsinger written by...
I just heard from filmmaker Penny Lane about her fascinating new video about European Starlings. That’s right, I said starlings. Sure, the European Starling...
While we love blathering on about life list around here, one that I wrote about last week was all about someone else’s life birds...
The lot of the Big Lister is far from easy. In order to add the majority of the world’s 10,000 or so bird species...
If I’ve been remiss in finishing the tale of my February 2009 Guatemalan odyssey, it may be that I’m as sorry to end the...
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