At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of...

This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Despite the absence of two major publishers—Lynx and HMH–from the new...

In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., a rural area in the eastern-central part of the state. Although Henslow’s had...

Do Brown-headed Cowbirds really smell like freshly baked sugar cookies? Do Dark-eyed Juncos really smell like leaves and dirt or “ferns and Celestial Seasonings’...

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. It was a one-story square building, four sides...

Sri Lanka is a ‘must visit country’ for any keen birder. It is slightly larger than Costa Rica, and in the most strategic places...

The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition...

Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not.  (Some, according to her, consider...