Birding

Just a quick review today. Spring migration in upstate New York has been picking up this week and I’ve been…

A while back, I wrote about an under-appreciated part of the National Wildlife Refuge System:  Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs).  Although…

How blessed can one guy be? Not only is Kenn Kaufman a world-class birder and all-around naturalist who makes his…

The first weekend of the fourth month of the year unites us all with exceptional birding opportunities. Did you join…

On our recent visit to Singapore we had hoped that we would be able to observe Oriental Pied Hornbills and…

Are we all getting excited yet? March is done. The equinox has passed. There can be no denying that spring…

April showers are said to bring May flowers, but this time of year offers far more than fancy flora. The…

At last, it’s spring in the northern half of the world. Birds are singing and migrating, freshets are running, and…

When we first landed here in Tucson, Arizona, fate worked her magic, and one of the first people I met…

Snow this time of year feels a lot like an April Fool’s joke, but these last gasps of winter can’t…