It has been awhile since I reviewed Esther Woolfson’s Corvus: A Life with Birds (I liked it), but the American edition has just been...

Thanks to the good, generous folks at Houghton Mifflin, we had two copies of the exciting new Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North...

So you want a free copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, don’t you? Of course you do. The question...

You’d think that a person’s centennial, even a posthumous one, would be easier. The long-awaited newly revised Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North...

I found Jonathan Rosen’s The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature so magnificent that I’ve been celebrating it for the...

You’ve probably heard that old saw about how it’s better to give than to receive. What if you could do both? That’s what wheelers...

D.H. Lawrence was definitely on to something when he declared that, “Birds are the life of the skies, and when they fly, they reveal...

One of the reasons I consider The Life of the Skies to be an Important Birding Book (caps to denote timeless majesty) is that...