bird race

It was already dark in mid-October when we arrived to the Costa Rican birding mecca of Rancho Naturalista to have…

The Crocodile Bridge on the Tarcoles River is a strange place. Cars stopped at the bridge itself, people walking –…

Sitting on a beach under a coconut tree (but not under the very crown, I know that), I am contemplating…

I have just returned from Costa Rica, the country about which I knew very little, despite it coming under my…

For those who happen to be faithful followers of posts about birding in Costa Rica, no, you haven’t accidentally browsed…

I’ve just returned from a trip to Israel and I feel like I’ve run 300 miles in a week…in the…

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Hugh, who years ago helped me find my…

The most flamboyant of all hummers, the Marvelous Spatuletail will be one of the many endemic bird highlights along the…

What if there was an international multi-day Birding competition? What if there was an event that truly captured the rigors…

Birding, like so many other things, is bigger in Texas. How else can you explain the 312 species the Swarovski…