I did not prepare properly when I went to the Galápagos. Reading over my email from that period, I can’t believe I ended up...

One need not ponder whether Birds:  Poetry in the Sky is more a bird book or an art book:  it fits each category.  But...

I see myself as an old school birder, which means that I do remember the times when good bird photos were rare and far...

Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time! Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more...

Denis Clavreul, artist, biologist, and Frenchman, got it into his head to follow the same paths blazed, in the first part of the nineteenth...

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of...

This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Despite the absence of two major publishers—Lynx and HMH–from the new...

Australia has a lot of birds. The “Working List of Australian Birds, v.4,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016 birds, but that includes subspecies...