I’m a New Yorker.  I was born in the Hudson Valley and grew up in the Catskills, went to school in the Southern Tier,...

Years ago, I wrote about the glaring homogeneity in North American birding circles and by glaring, I mean all that bright white skin. The...

When I am having anything larger than the mailbox in my apartment building shipped to me I specify that I need to have it...

Everyone knows who John James Audubon became: a renowned artist and naturalist whose inimitable style and spirit made him the paragon of American birding. ...

You know your interest in birds has blossomed from passing to passion when you realize that you’re even enamored of avian artifacts from their...

Birds: The Art of Ornithology by Jonathan Elphick was originally published in an over-sized, luxury edition but is now available in a much smaller...

The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts is a new biannual publication dedicated to, quite simply, birds and creative writing. The title “LBJ” suits this...

Living in a house with uncaged birds is not for everyone and that goes double for those brave enough to live with corvids.  Usually...