Deb Hirt

Some of the most remote atolls in the North Pacific can be found at the Republic of the Marshall Islands, which have an unusual composition and a very low elevation for islands.

“The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada” by Lillian Stokes and Matthew Young is long overdue.

About one year later, also during fall and fifty thousands e-mails, we learn that McCormick Place Lakeside Convention Center has taken a much-needed step in protecting America’s birds.

The author of “Slow Birding,” Joan Strassmann, which I reviewed in an earlier column, takes her job seriously as an instructor.

A new release “40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition,” by evolutionary biologists Peter Grant and Rosemary

For those unaware but have heard about them, there are two supercontinents, one covering the north on our world, the other comprising the southern continents.

Between billions of dollars in cocaine, bird trade, and the likelihood of climate change, Central and South America have much working against them for their biodiversity for birds.

With Christmas coming, things are changing in way of finches, with missing pieces in the boreal seed crop starting in the fall.

For four decades, the Least Bell’s Vireo has led a charmed life. It always called the secretive riparian area of the Los Angeles River home.

We have touched on the House Finch at least once in the past. Nobody reading this column needs a refresher on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, so we