This week in birding news has it all covered. Er, sort of. To wit: As if beach-nesting birds don’t have enough problems, along comes...

Glue traps: For compassion’s sake, please do not set, place, or hang them. Here’s why. Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps,...

We love our stuff, stuff being the term affectionately given to the objects with which we populate our lives. In birding, we like to...

Well, it’s official. Over a decade since I was last there, I am finally heading back to Africa late this year. Not forever mind,...

The ranger stood on the dirt road, facing south, and the rest of us, scattered about the parked safari truck, facing north and paying...

The squawk is unmistakable, a harsh, high-pitched cry with undertones of bass, lasting about 2-seconds, followed by a second, then a third “Squaaawwwk.”  It’s...

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome...

I was happy to read that the Wood Stork (Mycteria americana), a bird near and dear to me, was down-sited from the status of...