First let me put forward my credentials for writing about butterflies. This is the second time that I have...

I was somewhere around Pittsburgh on the edge of Ohio when the boredom began to kick in.  Instead of...

Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change. The task of...

The Little Blue Heron, like most (all?) herons and egrets, flies with its neck bent and its head drawn in...

Since watching robo-whimbrels took a sudden morbid turn, let’s follow migrating loons! The U.S. Geological Survey Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences...

All of us who identify ourselves as birders are thrillingly familiar with the sense of discovery, accomplishment, and even...

Penguins. The birds that wear tuxedos and star in major motion pictures. People call them “flightless birds” but they...

By the time you read this post I will still be in New York but I’ll be looking forward...