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I bird in Forest Park a lot. You know, in case you haven’t noticed,I figured I would point that out. I’ve seen two life birds there this spring, a Kentucky Warbler, which was a very quick twitch, and a Gray-cheeked Thrush, a bird I have probably seen before but failed to identify. [...]

On May 16th (after visiting both Marievale and Suikerbosrand on the 15th) I spent the morning driving up and back down the Zaagkiuldrift gravel road to Kgomo-kgomo - a lightly-used, exotically-named dirt road that cuts between privately-owned farms and game reserves in excellent thornveld to the north of Pretoria. The road more or less follows [...]

Do we know any birders in Miami? Charlie will be in the city for a midweek morning at the end of June and would love to hook up for a quick trip out. Please email us if you’d like to spend some time with the UK representative of the 10,000 Birds team…

The other day when I woke up it was to the jumbled song of a Canada Warbler. At first I thought that it was a weird dream, the product of too much birding and not enough sleep during the month of May’s migration but then I looked out my window and wow! In [...]

This is a reminder that some excellent book giveaways are about to end without YOUR participation. First and foremost is our Young Birder’s Guide Giveaway, wherein we’re giving away 3 copies of Bill Thompson III’s terrific Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America. Can you believe we haven’t heard from any young birders [...]

We’ve been rocking warblers so hard this May (I sound like a teen there, don’t I?) that all of a sudden, I found myself in the mood for shorebirds. Weird, right? I know that I’m supposed to be eyeing sandpipers and the like around August, but there are some shorebirds that are just better before [...]

A couple of days ago I posted a short trip report on a visit I made to one of my favourite spots on earth - Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve in South Africa. Writing the post reminded me of just how many birds I’ve seen at this one small site, and I thought I might put a [...]

On a recent visit to the waterhole at Forest Park on a day when sunlight alternated with light rain the birding was relatively slow (meaning I only saw about ten species of wood-warbler in an hour). I was about to pack it up and head home as the sunlight-rain cycle was moving towards rain [...]

 
Organisation: Neotropical Bird Club

The Neotropical Bird Club (UK registered charity 1040130) has been established to:

foster an interest in the birds of the Neotropics amongst birdwatchers throughout the world
increase awareness of the importance of support for conservation in the region
mobilise the increasing number of enthusiastic birdwatchers active in the region to contribute to the conservation of [...]

The migratory month of May means that birds are on the move and if you live in the United States, you might just have yourself an extra day to mark their passage. So where are you going birding this weekend? Comment below on the excitement you have planned!
Corey and I will be exploring the Atlantic [...]