It’s summertime and the birding is easy… easy that is because all we have to contend with in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere...

It is often said in sympathy or defiance that where there’s life, there’s hope. The difficult truth is also that where there’s life, there’s...

This marvelous month of May is marked primarily by motion. Change is in the air as blossoms bloom, trees leaf, and critters of every...

At one unguarded moment or another, every person fantasizes about turning a passion into an occupation. “What could be better,” you might muse, “that...

There is more than one way to look at a bird. So many people see birds as part of the scenery, if they look...

Lo, another fortnight has passed and we have before us a magical new edition of I and the Bird, the blog carnival for the...

Every ardent adherent of the avian observation lifestyle learns at one point or another that you just can’t go birding every day. Sometimes weather...

Birders, as I’ve written before, are consumers of the fruits of evolution, celebrants of the processes of natural selection and genetic drift. It may...