Big Almaty Lake, about thirty kilometers south of the city of Almaty, is a glacial-fed lake situated at just over 2,500 meters in the...

Seeing any bird with the word “Himalayan” in its name is going to be a thrill.  Ditto for any bird named with any variation...

…in a pretty poor attempt to make planes safer from bird strikes.  The plan is to cull about 2,000 geese from parks and city-owned...

After the pre-breakfast birding whetted my appetite for some seriously good birds I couldn’t wait to get up into the the snow-capped Tien Shan...

After our two days birding the flat lands near Astana we flew to Almaty late at night and made our way to the Hotel...

Blackbird singing in the dead of night, Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this...

Heavens to Betsy!  Beavers have made such a comeback in Massachusetts that some now consider them a pest.  From the New York Times article:...

It has been four months since I returned from Honduras and I just realized that I stopped blogging about the trip rather abruptly.  Consider...