Birdwatchers love making lists, with the year list one of the most important. In my younger days I always kept year lists: my best...

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find...

From its boreal forest to steppes which once trembled under the hooves of Genghis Khan’s hordes, and from the Gobi Desert to the Altai...

I consider myself fortunate that I learned to love summer birding before I ever knew what the summer doldrums are, if only because summer...

One field guide, seven countries. It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because...

Twitching is a British term used to mean “the pursuit of a previously located rare bird.” In North America it is more often called...

About four years ago I first wrote about the Pink-headed Duck, a charming species related to the pochards (although how, exactly, is up for...

Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel Wheatley and covering South...