The migration of North America’s Monarch Butterflies (Danaus Plexippus Plexippus) is one of the wonders of the natural world. Unlike our feathered friends’ migration,...

Last year, the oldest Christmas Bird Count in Mexico turned 50 years old. That would be the CBC in San Blas, Nayarit, founded by...

While I have picked up 26 lifers so far this year, all but seven have been from outside of Mexico, and only two have...

So I haven’t had much birding excitement to write about in the past couple of weeks. But I have been able to enjoy going...

I am a man obsessed. Ever since our nearby Lake Cuitzeo, a major wintering grounds for all sorts of waterfowl and shorebirds, dried up...

Last year, my wife and I visited (in a professional capacity) friends who at that time lived in a high-rise apartment building in Marrakesh....

My wife and I reached southern Spain’s Costa del Sol region on October 19th, staying until the 4th of November. Spain, coming out of...

In The Music Man, a wonderful work of musical theater to which I was much exposed as a child, the first scene begins with...