BIRDING WITHOUT BORDERS:  An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World.  By Noah Strycker.  Houghton Mifflin, 352 pp., $27.  ISBN 978-0-544-55814-4....

Are there birders out there who do not dream of birding Australia?  Possibly birders who have already birded Australia (but, wouldn’t you want to...

Hi, my name is Dragan and I do not know my shorebirds. If I were to give a speech at the shorebirds conference, those...

Birds of Kruger National Park by Keith Barnes and Ken Behrens and Wildlife of Ecuador by Andrés Vásquez Noboa, photography by Pablo Cervantes Daza...

There are birders who watch hawks and there are hawk watchers who bird. These, the hawk watchers, are the people who can’t stop watching...

The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow is innovative, fascinating, and challenging.  As the title plainly says, this...

When I was a kid I loved books like My Side of the Mountain, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Julie of the Wolves....

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. It was my first trip to the Neotropics, and I...