Adventures in Birding – Page 2

Bald Is Beautiful

Ever since I read Julie Zickefoose’s latest book, Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay, I have had a […]

The title I originally planned for this article was “The Woes of Fall Migration,” but I decided instead to focus

What a pleasure and thrill it was last month to resume my long break in international birding travel. This was

What mighty force could possibly bring a myriad of agencies (US Fish and WIldlife Service, Ohio State Parks, Ohio Department

During a recent field trip to a nearby national wildlife refuge, I picked up a newly published checklist of birds

On a recent lunch break, I walked down one hill and up three others to drop off a starfish sansevieria

If I have any regrets in life, it is that I didn’t become a birder sooner. I suppose birding took

When I checked my email one recent morning, as I usually do first thing in the morning, I noticed a

One thing about bird watchers is that we rarely stop with birds. Once you notice one winged creature, it’s difficult

Since late May, in some areas of the East and Midwest, reports of dead and dying birds—either with crusty, diseased

The first worldwide bird census reports that there are roughly 50 billion birds in the world, according to a recent

I recently led a Bird Watcher’s Digest Birdtography Reader Rendezvous in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I arrived a few