Sure, birds can be annoying. On Portland’s Sauvie Island now, snow geese unnervingly dominate the sky like a Hitchcock horror film, and aptly named cackling geese create such an unrelentingly racket ...

printed field guides like the Peterson series might seem outdated. I welcome those digital tools for birders, but the Peterson books offer a lovely, compact survey of area bird life, and the ...

A bird field guide is crucial in helping you identify different species. These guides typically include pictures, descriptions and range maps. And don’t forget a notebook to keep a record of the ...

“Best Little Book of Birds: Coastal Washington” by Tamara Enz. Searching for a compact, beginner-friendly guide to the birds along Washington ... flower or garnish your salad with the leaves. “Field ...

Author Matt Kracht takes TODAY’s Al Roker bird watching in Central Park to share how he first published “The Field Guide to Dumb Birds” and turned it into a bestselling series that combines real ...

The best-selling series of National Audubon Society field guide books have gone mobile, putting information about the natural world at the fingertips of Apple?s iPhone and iPod touch users. The first ...

it’s simply a survey of some books I’ve found useful as a Louisiana bird enthusiast. With convenient birding apps such as Merlin within quick reach on a smartphone, printed field guides like ...