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 week marks only the second time the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) has been featured here at Birds and Booze. Given its cosmopolitan range, we...

One of the old jokes I always hear at Christmas Bird Count dinners pops up we get to the ducks, which is now pretty...

As uncertain as the future may be, I’m sure we’re all ready to bid farewell to the year 2020. And while we’re all looking...

By now, it’s quite clear that the American Thanksgiving holiday of 2020 – which falls next Thursday – will be quite unlike Thanksgiving in...

Just yesterday I learned that the Barn Owl (Tyto alba) is the only breeding bird found in New York that has been documented nesting...

Reviewed regularly on this blogsite are: (1) bird identification guides, visual and sonic; (2) books about living with birds or caring for rescued birds;...

It’s been a long winter. Lucky for us, we’ve spent much of that time here at Birds and Booze comforted by robust red wines,...