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Some years ago I read a story about a man who had kept track of his reading for years. Each time he read a book, he would jot down its

Gregory Nobles reviews Joan E. Strassmann's Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard.

My husband and I sat in our backyard chatting at the end of a busy day. A few feet away, a bright red cardinal dined on sunflower seeds. A downy

The weather is warming, daylight hours are increasing; both signs that spring will soon be here. The following new books will help you make that seasonal trans

A female Cooper’s hawk banded in 2007 in Grand Forks has reached a milestone. She is the oldest recorded female Cooper’s hawk.

In this inspiring guide to the art of slow birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis tells colorful stories of the most common birds to be found in the United States — birds we often see but might not have considered deeply before.

In the last few years, there have been an abundance of books published about birds.

A new book borrows from the slow food movement to propose a more thoughtful, less competitive form of bird-watching.

A growing number of biologists now acknowledge that there are serious problems with modern evolutionary theory.

Response to Scientific American's "The Complicated Legacy..."