Some birds are too cool for just one name. Others have names that give us pause because they don’t seem to describe, to convey,...

Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day, a holiday that offers plenty of excuses for drinking, but few prospects for straying from the well-worn celebratory routines....

The last weekend of winter (or summer, depending on your polar orientation) rarely resembles either the season ending or the one about to commence....

During the final stages of the Pan-European bird-atlassing work last year, computer models of Serbian ranges for some 150 bird species were produced for...

We have finally broken away from Christchurch, New Zealand. That was a much harder thing to do than I would have ever though. Great...

The Northern Spotted Owl is a “threatened” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and it was famously the subject of extensive and protracted...

I was out on the beach yesterday (Sunday, 11 March) morning, hoping to see some interesting ducks or alcids or, really, anything interesting. I...

Mid-March may not pack the punch we get from more migratory months in the temperate zones, but this time of year has its birding...