The irony of birding in tropical forest is that although there are literally hundreds of bird species, a pretty high percentage of them are...

Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. But that makes her...

This time of year, with its excess of heat and humidity, gladdens me in a fundamental way that seems seems similar to how John...

1. Two more sparrows on the macadam ahead of me… In my early birding days, I would simply assume that they are sparrows, possibly...

Juvenile Northern Bald Ibis photo by Mich77/Wikimedia Commons Among the most critically endangered birds on the planet is the Northern Bald Ibis. With wild populations...

Sometimes birds are just a lot smarter than we give them credit for. There have been many documented cases of American Crows solving complicated...

I love condors and vultures. They get a bad rap due to their dependence on carrion to survive, but I look at it a...

I’m not always a Big Year groupie, and it took me a while to start following Neil Hayward’s Accidental Big Year. But, by December...