April is here and change is upon us. If you hail from a temperate region, you’re in the midst of a magical transformation that...

Pigeons apparently tend to follow the bird best at navigating, or at least that is the crux of a forthcoming Nature article based on...

Looking back on it, I still cannot believe how action-packed my second day in Ecuador was. As dawn broke, I admired killer cloudforest birds...

Though the idea that mimics learn their sounds from other species might seem painfully obvious (why else call them mimics?) the theory had not...

Now that Daisy and I have a child our number of visits upstate have lessened dramatically.  The thirty-minute subway ride to Manhattan followed by...

An old section of an elementary school in Indiana is to be torn down this summer, a section that includes a chimney long used...

One sure way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best...

My job, union job that it is, is lousy with holidays.  Our contract is solid enough that we get Good Friday off – even...