Now that spring has sprung and the best season for bird-watching is upon us, here are two handy books that crossed my desk in ...

The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane (Penguin, 2026). This is far from a run-of-the-mill bird book, and all the better for it. It is not about identification but describes itself ...

For serious birders and casual bird fans, the library offers field guides, a NOLS Gear birding kit and bird call recordings.

Sure, birds can be annoying. On Portland’s Sauvie Island now, snow geese unnervingly dominate the sky like a Hitchcock horror film, and aptly named cackling geese create such an unrelentingly racket ...

PORT ANGELES — Matt Kracht said he was unsure what the reaction to his first book, “The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America,” might be when it was published in 2019. Modeled on authoritative ...

Which bird field guide is best? More than 45 million Americans claim bird-watching as a hobby, and millions more pay attention to the birds that are around them wherever they go. You don’t have to ...

I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Dr. Fred Alsop of East Tennessee State University (ETSU) has been in the birdwatching business for some time, long enough to earn the top spot in online reviews for a book ...

SHEFFIELD — For Zach Adams, birding isn’t about getting every identification right — it’s about having fun. “You’re going to be wrong. Everybody gets bird identification wrong. I get it wrong all the ...

BRATTLEBORO — The Southeastern Vermont Audubon Society will host a special program on Tuesday, Jan. 20, about bird field guides from the late 19th and early 20th century. David Spector will lead the ...

I was hosing bird droppings—a staggeringly copious amount of them—off my front stoop when I saw one author of the mess parked on a powerline above my house. In rapid succession, pitch-perfect ...