That’s right, I’m going to the First Annual Mesoamerican Birding Festival.  Now while Mike has enjoyed birding the neotropics (the sub-tropical and tropical parts...

Sometimes I feel like I lived a charmed life.  On Saturday, which is not my actual birthday but is when Daisy and I both...

On both the day of and the day after the Superbowl of Birding I was amazed at how the ducks, loons, and gulls (way...

An article in the New York Times details the discussion about tropical “secondary” forests, that is, rainforest growing on land that had been cleared...

When we spotted White-winged Crossbills during the Superbowl of Birding we were hardly able to stop and appreciate them.  We were, after all, in...

Yesterday we posted about the tremendous variety of parrots found in Guyana, northern South America, and mentioned the work of Marc Johnson and Karen...

When competing in a birding competition a team of birders will undoubtedly experience blissful highs whenever a new bird, especially a good new bird,...

For the last two days our ‘Parrot Month’ theme has been looking at the Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus (and here), a South American species...