field guide

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…

What is the best bird you’ve seen in New York State and why has it stayed in your memory?  This is…