Global Big Day is an initiative created by the folks at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to promote the use of eBird and birding...

In the birding world, May is the beautiful time. With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is...

Costa Rica is a small yet very birdy country (readers may have gotten that impression on previous posts I have written for 10,000 Birds,...

One of the quandaries of birding in Costa Rica is deciding where to go birding. Where do you go when there are so many...

Spring is happening! Each day, the sun stays out just a bit longer and up north, the snow is old, feeble and on its...

In Costa Rica, we have two coasts, a pair of shorelines that touch two oceans. To the west and south, we have the Pacific,...

It’s good to have birding goals. Challenges like a Big Year, county lists, or a Big Sit can push a birder to learn more,...

Barbets are odd, chunky birds with large beaks. There’s so much more that can be said about this group of birds but that’s the...