Growing up in Niagara Falls, New York, June was a celebration of summer. It was finally, actually, truly warm outside and it was therefore...

Migration may be officially/unofficially over (who’s in charge of calling these things anyway?) but we can still hope for a few slowpokes and stragglers...

To birders, the search for raptors perched at the very tops of telephone poles, or for neatly arranged rows of sparrows or buntings sitting...

Anybody spending a few days in Shanghai for business or tourism may not think that this is a good place for birding. In fact,...

It’s still dark at 5 am when the alarm on my mobile phone wakes me up in a spacious guest house room in Chikhaldara...

If you are like me, you can get a fair amount of birding done while traveling with your non-birder spouse… as long as you...

Next door to my hometown, the Gulf Breeze Zoo occupies 50 acres near the Santa Rosa Sound. While I harbor mixed feelings about zoos...

A feather is a magical thing. There is a wonder to its construction and color, a mystery that goes beyond what we know anatomically...