Birding

We are all guilty of concentrating on the exotic and sensational to the exclusion of “trash birds”, but occasionally something…

Did you know that October Big Day falls this weekend? Did you even know October Big Day was a thing?…

This is the first October in three years I haven’t been vacationing in California. But I felt I should at…

October 18 is a legal holiday in the 49th state.  Alaska Day commemorates Alaska’s formal transfer from Russia to the…

October is a good month to see owls in Shanghai, where these birds are rare in most other months. Two…

Warning: Any and all flycatchers shown in this post may be misidentified. Cut me some slack. These are the Empidonax…

Mid-October birding can be as exciting as you–and wind and weather conditions–allow it to be. Did everything needed for a…

Last week during a camping trip to Kununurra we encountered a Radjah Shelduck family in one of the irrigation channels…

For many Americans, a three- or four-day weekend–no matter its provenance–arrives at the perfect time to enjoy peak autumn excitement….

Photo by Mac Stone. Yesterday, Audubon released a report years in the making, entitled, “Survival by Degrees: 389 Species on…