Category: Nature

• Remarkable Bird Discovery in Russia

  I’ve been quite busy the last year working on my fish owl book for Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (and Penguin in the UK), so have been a little quiet on…

• 2017 End of Year Summary

  Another good year! In total, I worked on 19 stories (down from 22 in 2016). The most important writing development of 2017, without question, was finding a home for my…

• A Spoon-Billed Curiosity

  This Spoon-billed sandpiper hatched somewhere in the Arctic of northeastern Russia, in the spring of 1988, a diminutive fluff camouflaged among the tundra vegetation. A few months later she flew…