One great aspect of visiting southern California in winter is that birds are everywhere that there is even marginal...

The Amazon is the best place to see jacamars, so my wife and I were very happy to find...

Georg Wilhelm Steller was never in the Rockies in the first place. Also, he has been dead for more...

Here is a very quick quiz for those of you with a short attention span.  This quiz is simple,...

We’re a couple of weeks into 2011 now, so take a moment to reassess. Have you lived the last...

Here’s a quick bit of fun for the trivially inclined. What do Gray Catbird, Chuck-will’s-Widow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rusty Blackbird...

This is the last part of my Wallcreeper trilogy in which I will tell the tale of another day,...

I read a news report on Tuesday that said 70% of the contiguous United States had snow cover.  Up...