Hungary

Old world warblers are difficult for North American birders. That is obvious. Rather than trying to learn them North American…

Having jumped around a bit while writing up my trip to Hungary – sharing a few galleries, a trip to…

There are two species in the Old World woodpecker genus that sounds like birds that birders would never be able…

Jeff Gordon and I were wandering around the seriously disturbed habitat behind the airport hotel we stayed in outside of…

The Barred Warbler, otherwise known as Sylvia nisoria, is one of those species that is aptly named if you only…

Do you know what the luckiest little bird in the world is? It is a fledgling Song Thrush being attended…

The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but…

It is the insensible birder who doesn’t learn something on each and every birding outing. And on a week-long trip…

I’m baaack! And what a trip to Hungary it was! Before I get into the nitty-gritties of my awesome birding…

Yikes! I’m in the land of goulash and, um, Budapest? We Americans, or at least this American, know little about…