In many temperate zones, birds of the genus Regulus are among the first to arrive in spring and the last to pass through come...

The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts is a new biannual publication dedicated to, quite simply, birds and creative writing. The title “LBJ” suits this...

Do you feel it in the air? The last whispers of summer are slipping away. Many of us grow wistful this time of year,...

It’s hardly a secret that we love coots around here (the birds, not senile old men!) We love them in their magnificent diversity from...

Yes, it is time once again for the bad rhymes and horrific meter of a birding adventure described in verse. To set the stage...

Emily Dickinson is one of the first poets I can remember admiring. I’m not sure whether it was her near rhymes, her life story,...

Perhaps one of the best known bird poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Eagle: A Fragment” packs a punch as powerful as a Golden Eagle‘s...

“The White Birds,” a poem W.B. Yeats wrote early in his career as a poet and dramatist, is like his other early works in...