field guide

Are seabirds the last frontier of bird identification? Steve N. G. Howell and Kirk Zufelt certainly think so. They say…

Or How a Serbian Suave Playboy Promoted Birding the Caribbean Oh, the joys of slipping through the pages of a…

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…