The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely...

Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. Some counters are unfailingly resolute in their dedication to this thankless graveyard shift of the...

Today is Black Friday, the notoriously chaotic and sometimes violent shopping day that comes a day after American Thanksgiving. It’s also notable for being...

October is a good month to see owls in Shanghai, where these birds are rare in most other months. Two species can be seen...

It’s still dark at 5 am when the alarm on my mobile phone wakes me up in a spacious guest house room in Chikhaldara...

I was home on Thursday evening hanging out with Desi. Daisy was working late and my mother-in-law had kindly started to make me some...

Just a quick review today. Spring migration in upstate New York has been picking up this week and I’ve been doing more birding than...

It’s a sometimes-painful fact of life that some fruits are easier to cope with as food than others. This condition applies to making fermented...