How to Be a Better Birder is a very different kind of birding book, and, once you think about it, the perfect book to...

Though this question is probably only relevant to birders in the midwest and northeast of the United States I feel compelled, like last year,...

Before arriving in the town of Copan Ruinas, Honduras, on February 27, 2009, I had only ever heard Inca Doves.  Their melancholy “no hope,...

I’ve just started a new job which has sucked out all of my time, so I was running late trying to dream up a...

Central Park, Manhattan, April 2010 I have spent many of my lunch hours over the last several months in Central Park.  As spring has...

Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond.  The...

This week I find myself writing about Colombia again. But this should not come as a surprise as the country really is almost fathomless...

Now that we’re in April, the time has come to wrap up all the bird (and non-bird) competitions the month of March is famous...