Neotropics

Can a family-focused trip—even to one of the world’s most biodiverse countries—deliver enough opportunities for avian observation to satisfy this…

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. It was my first trip to…

The nation of Colombia has been the victim of some bad press over the last few decades, not all of…

Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses…

The word “tanager” conjures certain images for most of us birder types. Maybe words like “colorful,” “beautiful,” “fruit,” and “tree.”…

Once we returned from our amazing trip to the mangroves at Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge (the tale is told…

They say that March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. I don’t know how this month…

That’s right, I’m going to the First Annual Mesoamerican Birding Festival.  Now while Mike has enjoyed birding the neotropics (the…