Despite being debased and reduced to a mere gastronomic buzzword by American chains of Italian-esque eateries, the offerings of dubious submarine sandwich shops, and...

To paraphrase Aristotle via Aldo Leopold, one swallow does not a summer make, but zero swallows, that is fall. That at least holds mostly...

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for “coronavirus 2019”) last February, many...

One of the nice things about winter finch irruptions is that they usually take place across two calendar years, allowing ardent listers to tick...

Today is Valentine’s Day – which means that at this very moment, countless would-be Romeos and hopeful Casanovas are undoubtedly scurrying around at the...

Falconry Month at Birds and Booze: I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of...

After my grim exposing you last month to Europe’s fifty shades of brown, I felt it incumbent upon me to right my wrong by...

Italy has no national bird! How this sad state of affairs could possibly continue is beyond the ken of this bird blogger but it...