“Drink your teeeeee!”
That would be the song of the male Eastern Towhee, according to the Learn Bird Songs! website. You can hear the songs of nearly three dozen species there, and hone your imitation on the way to Atlanta this weekend.
John Yow, the Armchair Birder, will be at the Decatur Book Festival Sunday afternoon at [...]

Continuing along the North Carolina piedmont, Davidson County is worthy of a pitstop. Founded in 1822 and named for Revolutionary War General William Lee Davidson, Davidson County is home to many unique and historical sites.
North Carolina is well known for it’s barbecue, but none is quite like the kind you get in Lexington–defining its own [...]

If you’ve lived in North Carolina for any length of time, chances are you know the state isn’t just famous for its barbecue, beaches, and basketball. It’s also a world-class destination for a fourth “B”—birding. North Carolina’s diverse natural communities from mountains to sea nurture an equally diverse array of bird species. Some spend most [...]

What do you see when you look out your window? City-friendly pigeons? Meadow-loving bluebirds?
John Yow, author of the fun and fantastic new book The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds, is now blogging! He talks about birds almost all of us have heard of and that many of us see on a [...]

New York, NY – Today! Tuesday 4/21 at 6 pm – Ann Marie Stock, author of On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition (hot off the press!), will be speaking at the Havana Film Festival at the King Juan Carlos Center.
Raleigh, NC – Wed., 4/22 at 11 am – Rob Christensen, author [...]

Upcoming author events, including a C-SPAN taping tonight!
Today, Tuesday, 4/14:

John & Dale Reed in Kernersville, NC -  Shakespeare & Company Books in Kernersville hosts the authors of Holy Smoke at 6 pm.

Lars Schoultz in Durham, NC – The author of That Infernal Little Cuban Republic will read and speak at the Regulator Bookshop at 7 [...]

Congratulations to author Alan Feduccia, who has just had a 120-million-year-old bird named after him!
The fossil of the early Cretaceous period bird, named Confuciusornis feducciai, was recently discovered in ancient, dried up lake deposits in Liaoning Province in northeastern China, an area that has produced a “gold rush” of fossils in the last decade, Feduccia [...]

As an editor at UNC Press, my professional rhythms are mostly dictated by the academic calendar. So with colleges and most public school systems in North Carolina quickly getting back to business, I often have to remind myself that summer is still going strong. And the great news for those of you who aren’t bound [...]