Some birds are especially exciting, because they are so hard to see. Others are unusually beautiful, or perhaps, just...

I have mixed feelings about ranking different bird species. One of my ornithologist friends appears to be happy counting...

As I have written before on this site, I consider even a bad day birding to still be a...

Another week, another week without birding. We spoke this weekend at a church in Toluca, three hours away, and...

As I have mentioned repeatedly over the past months, life this spring has gone topsy-turvy in central Mexico, as...

We had dear guests from the Middle East staying with us on Monday, my usual birding day. So this...

So here is where we were a week ago in central Mexico: Some of the country’s most important and...

It seems that almost none of the major storylines in my life were the result of any planning on...