Larry Bird – one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA – once gave up his college basketball career to return to his hometown, French Lick, Indiana. But soon after, an assistant coach went ...

Robert Sundell, a local ornithologist and biology professor who was working on a manuscript of his notes on local birds before passing away in 2017. The book has recently been published by his friends ...

What’s in a bird name? Lots of facts and history. Names might commemorate historically significant people, or refer to places, anatomical features, or perceptions of intellect or behavior. Sometimes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. You may recall that I was a judge for the 2016 Royal Society ...

“These pages are a record of my obsession with birds,” writes Amy Tan in the preface to “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” and “obsession” is no overstatement. Her new book, culled from “nine personal ...

We humans had until recently become inured to losing track of breeding birds for the duration of their migratory journeys, which we now know can span tens of thousands of miles. When a white stork ...

No doubt because I once worked at a Jewish newspaper and have written a novel about a woman rabbi — not to mention a work of nonfiction called “The Talmud and the Internet” — I am sometimes asked if ...