After beginning the month with two sour beer reviews, I’ve decided to keep the streak going to close out August with a third. While...

After a long hiatus that included a new cat, a new apartment, and enough time with the in-laws to last me quite awhile, here’s...

So you’re a bird just minding your own business—feeding, nest-building, mating, that kind of thing. You’ve adapted fairly well to the presence of the...

That flamingos (Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae) are probably each others’ closest living relatives is one of the most surprising discoveries in higher-level avian systematics...

The bill of the Greater Flamingo is a marvel of nature that would make any baleen whale turn pale with envy. Indeed, they are...

If you are a birder reading this, you will probably like flamingos because they are pink. If you are a flamingo reading this, you...

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Germany was not a birding nation, at least not by international standards. In the good old...

Why can’t I shut up about this? In 1999, a woman named Jennifer Price published a fascinating — if since largely forgotten — book...