Charyn Canyon, sometimes spelled Sharyn Canyon, is very large canyon in southeastern Kazakhstan, a couple of hundred kilometers east...

Another year, another giant chicken up in flames! That’s right, I’m talking about the annual ritual my family and...

The four days I spent in Kazakhstan, though they sped by while I was experiencing them, now seem to...

Was it Samuel Taylor Coleridge who famously wrote, “Birds, birds everywhere but not a one worth a @#*$” or...

Last year at the end of July I wrote a post about birding Jamaica Bay in which I complained...

It’s been eight days since my trip on Friday, 3 July, to upstate New York to see the Mississippi...

As we continued east from Almaty the air got drier and drier and the landscape got more and more...

A million colors come with spring but one particular shade of blue bedevils the imaginations of northeastern American birders...