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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

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.

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

Mapping birds' feeding habitats Last October, I signed up my family, with great enthusiasm, for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's yearly citizen science survey, Project FeederWatch. The premise is simple: You watch birds and report what you see. I paid the $18 fee and received a cool poster and some simple directions in the mail. I went out and bought birdseed and a bird feeder, which I set up outside our kitchen window. The only part I remember from the directions is this sentence: "Even if you only count once all season, your data are val...