A successful birding adventure tends to include a fair bit of planning. It’s needed if “success” is synonymous with seeing a higher percentage of...

Some birds are too cool for just one name. Others have names that give us pause because they don’t seem to describe, to convey,...

Fulfilling, delicious if you will, satisfying. Serious chocolate cake? Almost, but even better. They get you where it counts, right in the birding heart....

“Birdiness”. No, not an official word but, um, so what? Many birds sing local dialects, and human languages are dynamic, they can’t help but...

“Seen anything good”? How many of us have heard that open-ended question while birding in the USA, Canada, and Costa Rica? How many of...

Not long ago, I had trouble sleeping because of these small, random explosions going off in my neighborhood. Each one was followed up by...

Costa Rica is a fantastic place to watch hummingbirds. Imagine forty plus resident species of this esteemed family zipping around a place the size...

The end of December is nigh and I don’t feel pressured to chase birds. How can that be? Aren’t I doing a Big Year?...