Like many birders, I regularly submit short lists of birds seen at my place of employment. But I also sometimes go there, specifically to...

Sometime in early modern history, European haute cuisine lost its appetite for spice. After centuries of hungering for the rarest and costliest of aromatic...

I like sparrows. I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy....

This year wasn’t so bad, especially compared to what had to be endured in the early to mid 2010’s.  Just look at your favourite...

Last weekend we had an extended family weekend at a beach house in Wildwood, New Jersey, just north of Cape May. And while I...

Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so far. He’s been working as...

Every autumn I spend an inordinate amount of time examining the edges of fields, scrubby stands of brush, and everywhere else that little brown...

I spent an hour or so at the feeders in Forest Park, Queens, yesterday morning and was pleased that the birds coming in were...