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My original plan was to put up a blog post today about the trip to Copan from the Lago de Yojoa region of Honduras but as I started looking through the pictures I hadn’t used yet from the first part of the Honduras trip I realized that I had quite a few shots of Pied-billed [...]

In the United States, President Obama recently signed legislation that sets aside more than 2 million acres as protected wilderness. In Quebec, Premier Jean Charest announced the creation of 14 new national parks and additions to another, totaling 4.5 million acres of new protected areas. Mexico, it’s your turn…

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You’ve probably heard this tale before. Many a proud birder has made the inevitable pilgrimage to Guatemala to climb a volcano in search of one of the most coveted, not to mention quirky birds in the Americas. Rick Wright has done it. Bill Thompson III has done it. Jeff Bouton has done it. Sharon Stiteler [...]

The last morning at the simple and birdy Hotel Las Glorias finally and unfortunately arrived: The first ever Mesoamerican Birding Festival was at its end.  The buses were scheduled to leave at 9 AM so after breakfast there was time (for those who thought to pack the night before) for some last minute birding and [...]

Many thanks to Paco Madrigal of Cotinga Tours who corrected the identity of this bird.  The original post called this bird a Buff-throated Saltator but it is, of course, a juvenile Black-headed Saltator, which, just to confuse novice neotropical birders, have a buffy patch on their throat! This post has been submitted to Bird Photography [...]

1,000,000 is a nice round number, much like 10,000. Thanks to your remarkable support, we should be serving our millionth visitor to our humble blog sometime this weekend. Alas, we’re not giving away any prizes to whoever rolls the odometer on SiteMeter but if you’re lucky number 1,000,000 we’ll probably never forget you!

On the fourth and final day of field trips for the Mesoamerican Birding Festival I was seriously psyched: I was going to a cloud forest!  The cloud forest in Santa Barbara National Park, to be precise, and I had visions of Resplendent Quetzals dancing in my head.  And what birder wouldn’t have visions of a [...]

March is ending which means you’d better get your fun in before April showers begin! Will you be birding this weekend? Let us know what you’ve got planned in the comments below! I just realized that with the first quarter of 2009 almost in the bag, I still haven’t been to Montezuma NWR. Maybe I [...]

I’m in search of a quality portable point-and-click camera that works well with digibinning. Any recommendations?