Most birders refer to some bird species as their nemesis. That is what we call a bird we probably should have seen already, but...

Responsible and Respectful Birding/Bird Photography in 2025: I was not planning to write a post on this topic, but a few days ago I...

Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) is a competition that has been around since 2016; its eponymous British sponsor works with a partner charity,...

People come to me in the streets regularly, telling me about the great comfort they get from my bad pictures. “Until I read your...

Dr. Roberta L. Bondar’s handsome new book of photographs, Space for Birds:  Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight, comes in two halves, but...

“You don’t like shorebirds?” my birding friend asked me in a tone of surprise, shock, and a tiny bit of horror. We had been...

One need not ponder whether Birds:  Poetry in the Sky is more a bird book or an art book:  it fits each category.  But...

Well, it finally happened. The week on the cusp between March and April was the first week in which failed to pick up any...