Brazil is an amazing country loaded with a huge number of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.  As...

There were many excellent entries in the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil giveaway.  As promised, one...

Ever run into trouble trying to assign a 4-letter code to a North American bird? Did you even realize that not every bird has...

Ecuador has three types of Quetzals, one in the Amazon basin and two in the east and west slopes.   The Quetzals in the...

There I was (I’ve been reading Thurber) on board a boat off Baja California, reveling in cormorants (three species!), Brown Pelicans, and the northernmost...