Bird of Passage: February 2026
Let's talk about bird eyeballs.
Bird of Passage: December 2025
Do you believe in omens?
Bird of Passage: November 2025
Happy November! Here are three short items that may be of interest...
Bird of Passage: October 2025
I realized recently that I had not really gone birding since May.
Bird of Passage: September 2025
Our backyard has a unique bird-related feature...
Bird of Passage: August 2025
A peak behind the curtain.
Bird of Passage: July 2025
Among birders, California's Channel Islands are famous for one thing...
Bird of Passage: June 2025
On transitions and the start of summer.
Bird of Passage: May 2025
When you’re out birding, is there a whole category of birds that you just sort of… ignore?
Bird of Passage: April 2025
Searching for sandhill cranes, then and now.
Bird of Passage: March 2025
Book giveaway inside!
Bird of Passage: February 2025
A quick note: I wrote this early in January, before all the news of the past couple weeks. It feels a bit frivolous now, but, well, taking time for things...
Bird of Passage: November 2024
A bit of housekeeping: This newsletter is going to go on hiatus for December and January, but it will be back the first Wednesday in February. Thanks so much...
Bird of Passage: October 2024
Do you have bird feeders? I don’t (not seed feeders, at least), and to be honest, I’ve become a bit of a curmudgeon about them. About half the area of my...
Bird of Passage: September 2024
Quick bit of time-sensitive bird world news before we dive in: The Bird Union, the union of National Audubon Society staff, is going on strike August 10–12...
Bird of Passage: August 2024
I have a big project this month: I’m editing the text for the forthcoming new edition of the National Geographic guide to the birds of North America. This...
Bird of Passage: July 2024
Have you been enjoying this newsletter? I’d really love to grow my subscriber base, so please consider forwarding it to a friend who you think would like it...
Bird of Passage: June 2024
Recently I had one of those days where the number of things I’d read about the election and PFAS and microplastics and climate change hit some sort of...
Bird of Passage: May 2024
If you’ve read my book, you may remember the chapter on “moon-watching” as a method for gathering data on night-migrating birds and the small group of...
Bird of Passage: April 2024
First, a quick housekeeping note: If this month's email looks a bit different, it's because I've moved from Substack to another email platform called...
