For our second day in Ecuador we had plans for the entire group of Queens birders to take the hour-and-a-half long drive from Pululahua...

The maniacal Mr. Moores threatened me with all kinds of bodily harm if I didn’t go over to Talking Naturally and vote in the...

Well, probably lots of people.  But if you like bourbon, bastards,* or birds, or just appreciate a well-written bird blog with great images then...

The afternoon of our first full day in Ecuador was spent at Yanacocha Preserve, a high-altitude elfin forest on the slopes of Volcan Pichincha,...

Residents of Staten Island, the borough of New York City most New Yorkers would rather cede to New Jersey, apparently don’t like their Wild...

While I have already given a tiny taste of birding in Ecuador and shared the triumph of my amazingly beautiful 1,000th bird, I haven’t...

“Drab, but with yellow on face” is how the Yellow-browed Sparrow is described in The Birds of Ecuador.  While that is a fair, if...

Though the unpacking from my marvelous trip to Ecuador isn’t even close to done and I have about five million things that need doing...