The most mystical birds we all long to see and know well are most often the most difficult to...

Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to...

For far too long there has been a bird that North American birders have mocked, derided, persecuted, hated, and,...

New York City, June 2008 The title of this post pretty much says it all. A couple of weeks...

This time of year we birders are all about firsts.  The slow return of breeding birds to the higher...

Whoo-hoo! It is now, on 20 March 2012, spring!  Take that, southern hemisphere! Here in New York it has...

Colombia is not only home to nearly 20% of all avian life on the planet but this birding mecca...

Do people go birding while inebriated?  There is the blog The Drinking Bird, but what about the drinking birder? ...