Don’t even ask me why I’m doing a birding year list. I have never kept a bird list before. Oh, sure, I checked the...

While the year 2012 was rather dismal for me as far as birding is concerned, it did allow me to plan 2013 carefully to...

The other night I went out to rescue a great big Red-tailed Hawk, who turned out to be a tiny little Sharp-shinned Hawk. The...

Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression that just by sitting...

If it’s October, then it is time to look up. Look up for migrants, look up for confusing fall warblers, but, most of all,...

If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National...

We’ve had a lot of discussion recently on the pros and cons of interfering with ‘nature’ on behalf of an individual animal. But sometimes,...

Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Gateway to a Million Shorebirds, by Lawrence Niles, Joanna Burger, and Amanda Dey, is a book with...