In the hedgerows and hayfields of Deerfield, Massachusetts, David Sibley can't help talking about the wonder of birds. "I'm hearing a lot of birds right now," he said. "They communicate with each ...

Despite famous and heart-warming exceptions, most birds live less than one year. A page on Egrets from David Allen Sibley's What It's Like To Be A Bird. Sibley's main aim is to ignite appreciation ...

field guides for bird-watchers. But David Allen Sibley, like Roger Tory Peterson before him, has built a career on helping amateur naturalists put a name to what they are seeing in the great outdoors.

David Allen Sibley’s visit helped area birders distinguish raptors and learn about the making of his definitive guide to North American birds.

For The Times’s summer birding project, I spoke to the field guide illustrator about how to sketch a bird. Here’s how he draws a black-capped chickadee → Start with a circle, then add an oval.

Apr 17, 2017 — Renowned birding field guide author and artist David Sibley is back in the North Country this week. Sibley is the author and illustrator of "The Sibley Guide to Birds," which was ...

Sibley realized that the diffusing light made the color on the bird's outer tail look different. "David didn't need to tell me he was wrong," Dunne said. "Not only is David uncommonly intelligent ...

one of the birders asked me, and I replied I had a general idea that they were naturalists who had illustrated famous books of birds. “David Sibley is basically the successor to them.

we have been encouraging new birders to try different ways to observe birds. Sketching is one way to deepen your observation skills. We asked a master illustrator, David Sibley, to share tips on ...

All three experts I consulted recommended field guides from illustrator David Sibley. Each entry in Sibley’s guides details a bird’s name, size, sounds, habitat map and what both the male and ...

This story was originally broadcast on November 17, 2019. In the hedgerows and hayfields of Deerfield, Massachusetts, David Allen Sibley can't help talking about the wonder of birds. "I'm hearing ...

"A bird's experience is far richer, complex, and 'thoughtful' than I'd imagined." "And if that was news to me after a lifetime of watching birds," Sibley writes, "it must be surprising to other ...