field guide

Perhaps you don’t know it yet, but with more than 1000 bird species, palm-fringed sandy beaches, developed tourism infrastructure, moderate…

One field guide, seven countries. It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North…

Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama make up Central America. Notice that had I not used…

What do you do when you are a bird guide in a Central American country incredibly rich in birds and…

Happy May Day!  Here in New York City, May is a magic time for birders as the migration floodgates open….

October 23 2017: I read the text message confirming that there is indeed a Common Greenshank at Edwin B. Forsythe…

Are there birders out there who do not dream of birding Australia?  Possibly birders who have already birded Australia (but,…

I first met Robert Gallardo in 2009, when I made my first visit to the Neotropics for the Mesoamerican Bird…

Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why…

Birds know habitat. They don’t read treaties or draw maps or build walls and, as far as we can tell…