The Ed's Up - A Honduran Photo-Essay
Mountain trogon On the last of our ten days in Honduras, our frenetic group of birders is watching an equally frenetic flock of warblers when one of us,...
The Ed's Up - Spring is Springing + New Book Title
Mountain bluebird Yes, I know it’s only February. But, still, it’s starting. This weekend, I saw dozens of marsh wrens perched at the tips of reeds, belting...
The Ed's Up - A special Galápagos photo essay
Santa Cruz giant tortoises Five days into our trip through the Galápagos, I was on the island of Santa Cruz watching a giant tortoise mount another…...
The Ed's Up - "I'm dying for some action..."
“… I’m sick of sitting round here trying to write this book.” - Bruce Springsteen I feel you, Bruce! These last few months have been tough; hence the...
The Ed's Up - Unbreaking
My face all the time I hope you’re all hanging in there. In the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, people knew that the coronavirus that reached the...
The Ed's Up - On the Grounding Force of Spring Migration
Calliope hummingbird Happy spring migration to all who celebrate! This is my favorite part of the birding calendar. Birds that I haven’t seen for many months...
The Ed's Up - Radiate Outwards
Photo by Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times Last month, I was interviewed by David Marchese of the NYT for their interview series called The...
The Ed's Up - On Doing Something
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, I had reported the topic, knew people to call, had built enough credibility at my workplace to take big swings, and had...
The Ed's Up - On Community
In the talk I gave at the XOXO Festival this summer, I spoke about doubling down on my community. I’ve noticed that whenever I use that word, people...
The Ed's Up - An Immense World for Kids!
A year ago, I announced that a Young Readers Edition of An Immense World was in the works. I’m now delighted to say that it is finished! The book, complete...
The Ed's Up - XOXO
[Laughter] In the past, when I’ve given talks about the pandemic, they’ve focused on how Covid revealed the vulnerabilities in our society, and why we failed...
The Ed's Up - 11 Hours on a Boat
Before the puffin appeared, the day was disappointingly quiet. I was off the coast of California with my wife, Liz, on our first pelagic trip—a full-day...
The Ed's Up - A Writing Case Study
Behind-the-scenes: On writing and practiced intentionality Every June, since 2022, I’ve spent a week on Catalina Island to support the USC Storymakers...
The Ed's Up - Ain't That a Kick in the Heeeeeead
Earlier this month, I travelled to the Maasai Mara in Kenya to do some reporting for the book I’m currently working on. And while I was there, as is my wont,...
The Ed's Up - On Judging a Pulitzer
Last summer, I agreed to serve on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction—a group of five writers tasked with selecting the best nonfiction...
The Ed's Up - Immersion in the True Reality
Last month, I wrote a piece for the New York Times about what birding has meant to me. Here’s a little snippet, but you can read the full piece with this...
The Ed's Up - Birding for Long-Haulers
A black-crowned night-heron that we saw on the second outing of The Spoonbill Club The Spoonbill Club: An Experiment in Birding for Long-Haulers My favorite...
The Ed's Up - How to Start a Book
Only when books are completed do we really talk about how they began. During book talks, I often get asked about where the idea came from. Once I had it,...
The Ed's Up - A wound in the shape of your words
I have an op-ed in the New York Times about what reporting on long COVID and similar illnesses has meant to me—what it taught me, how I’ve approached it, and...
The Ed's Up: Announcing my third book!
Black-crowned night-heron Announcing Book Three: The Infinite Extent “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to...