It was an early morning last October, 6.40 a.m. in the Casa Tangara dowii lodge as I was taking my observation position next to...

Ontario is larger than Texas, more than 1 million square kilometers of forests, cities, wetlands, tundra, rivers and lakes. It borders the Hudson Bay...

The first thing to note about the Field Guide to North American Flycatchers is the subtitle: Empidonax and Pewees. No Kingbirds, no Phoebes, no...

Never trust a field guide publisher’s claim of a definitive text, because each new edition is certain to bring more a definitive text than...

Australia has a lot of birds. The “Working List of Australian Birds, v.4,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016 birds, but that includes subspecies...

When you spot a brand new bird identification guide, especially for your home region – in this case, Europe – reaching for it comes...

Birds of Egypt and the Middle East by Richard Hoath does a good job at giving you an idea of which birds to expect...

With spring migration near (though for some nearer than others, looking at you birders in the south), I thought it was a good time...