Summer weekends often mean summer road trips, mixed blessings at best. Of course, we love to visit new places and enjoy cool breezes at...

July often means travel, which sometimes means tourist attractions, which occasionally means exotic or introduced bird species. Following me here? Encountering exotics raises all...

July rarely ranks high in the list of top birding months. Too few species on the move makes for the same old same old....

The compelling contrarian positions put forth during Come@Me Week undoubtedly had many of you questioning your core beliefs about birds, birding, conservation, and even...

Ready for some contrarian birding commentary? The end of June may be superior in many ways to other times of year, or at least...

Remember how much fun migration was? Say goodbye to that kind of excitement now that summer (or winter for the antipodeans) has set in....

Another Father’s Day, another opportunity for millions of birding dads to invite, entice, or drag their progeny out into the field. Here’s a question...

Calendar spring is nearly at an end, but nature summer started a while ago. Most birders, attuned as they are to the rhythms of...