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So there I was in Guatemala, where it’s cool to eat cookies before dawn. A murderer’s row of local and international scientists, conservationists, guides, tourism agents, optics ambassadors, and birding industry writers, editors, and organizers queued up, well before sunrise of course, for the short flight from Guatemala City to the Peten. Time in the [...]

So there I was in Guatemala, where the living is easy. Our motley crew of American, Guatemalan, and British birders abandoned the sweet pine oak habitat of Cerro Alux for the delights of a lush, deliciously vertical finca outside Antigua. Finca El Pilar cultivates coffee under a biodiverse canopy of dry, deciduous forest. Of course, [...]

So there I was in Guatemala, where the people are good looking and the coffee is strong. The highlands birding of the previous evening had only made me hungry for more, so an international contingent including Mike Freiberg, Brian Bland of Sunbird Tours, and Tim Appleton of British Birdfair fame convened before daybreak. We were [...]

Have you ever started your day knowing that the word “mundane” just wasn’t going to apply? That’s how I felt this morning when I woke up in GUATEMALA! I’m here to participate in the fourth Birding Encounter courtesy of the Guatemala Tourism Commission. This noble enterprise has been conceived to promote bird watching and ecotourism [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from the Core Team. As this holiday is called Turkey Day in a most ironic jab towards the object of American appetites, my initial instinct is to offer up a favored vegetable recipe or some fascinating facts about the Wild Turkey. However, it comes to mind that Meleagris gallopavo [...]

Summer isn’t even over yet and I’m already thinking about our next trip abroad. Maybe you are too. If so, you must consider Central America. Not only is the natural beauty spectacular and the Maya ruins fascinating, but Central America is a birding paradise. During our week in Belize this past July, we saw nearly [...]