I didn’t realize that it was customary at year end to ruminate on one’s previous 52 weeks of avian observation, but I’m happy to...
My sister and I brought Mason to catch the last weekend of the New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show. The trains weren’t exactly...
True to form, our unseasonably warm weather snapped just in time for the weekend. Twenty-four hours of torrential rain was followed by twenty-four more...
The term “bird brained” is usually used as a slur to impugn someone’s intelligence. But why should a reference to avian intelligence be insulting?...
I spotted the mangy female House Finch featured above at Ann’s feeders last week. Before you panic, this poor wretch doesn’t seem to be...
My efforts to bag one last life bird before 2005’s end proved futile. There were no winter finches or white-winged gulls for me, no...
The Blue Crane Grus paradisea is truly a magnificent creature and worthy of being South Africa’s national bird. It is also known as the...
I just finished reading Malcom Gladwell’s remarkable book, Blink, subtitled The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Gladwell’s writing really is sensational. This particular work...
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