The Birdist

Among the many things I enjoy -- a list that also includes Cape Cod Dark Russet chips; rubbing my face really hard; deeply inhaling a fresh can of Play-doh; gas station coffee; calling people "Big Dog" when I can't remember their names; new socks; and Mon…

After the Texas Library Association Conference I talked about in Part 1 it was time for some bird-finding.

Ugh I typed this all out once and none of it saved for some reason.

My latest book, World Without Birds, came out on March 3, 2026, and it's been a fun week.

Really proud to announce that my new book, WORLD WITHOUT BIRDS, is out today from Workman!

Everything in the world is terrible and it's not even fun to point it out anymore.

Hey all I just wanted to post these here so I have them and don't forget them and maybe one day stumble upon them as an old man trying to remember what my voice once sounded like.

I am mostly writing this post so people will have something to link to for Community Notes.

My buddy Ed said he was going to a conference in Oaxaca, Mexico and was tacking on a few days to go birding.

Warming temperatures in the Arctic are keeping the Northwest Passage open longer, making it easier than ever for seabirds to move between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

[Adopted from a post I sent to the Maine Birds listserv] Every year a group of us tries to spend an intensive day of birding in a county outside our Cumberland County homes.

Is Arenal Observatory Lodge the White Lotus for birders?

Cats are known to be the leading predator of birds in the U.S.A, killing somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds per year.

I'm really proud to announce that my new book, Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works, is out now.

I am old enough that I plated the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) when it was new.

The first thing that made me want to visit the Azores was a computer game, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Really proud to announce a new book from Workman Publishing called Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works.

March is usually the boring-est birding month.

Hello my dear friends.

The trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, maybe the most-anticipated video game in history, leaked on social media last night.

When I was a kid and we wanted to fill our bird feeder we reached for one thing: birdseed.

There are four regularly-occurring shearwaters in the Gulf of Maine: Great (the most numerous), Cory's, Sooty, and Manx.

I know I'm about a year late on this but who cares.

Ugh sorry no blogs for so long MY FAN(S) IS/ARE FURIOUS!

I spent just a single year living in Mississippi but the impact has been much greater.