Can I tell you, I’ve just fallen in love with birding all over again. I owe this renewed ardor for avian observation to a...

along comes a blog brilliantly named Cephalopodcast, a perfect site for the sixth edition of Carnival of the Blue.

Here it is nearly two weeks since I returned from my European sojourn and I’m still writing about the birds I saw during my...

Throughout history, innumerable adventurers, merchants, rum runners, and real estate moguls have been entranced by the inexorable pull of the sea. The entrancing tidal...

Until now, animals with backbones (most of them human) have hosted the Circus of the Spineless. Vertebrates make up at best 5% of the...

Waking up early was easy on my last day in Greifswald as I had slept well after over imbibing a bit the previous night...

David Gessner, author of that lovely paean to peregrination, Soaring with Fidel, shares some further thoughts on migration on the Beacon Broadside blog.  As...

Although the twain rarely meet in the field, birding and drinking seem similar in many ways. That’s right, I said drinking… a topic to...