Only one week after the Atlantic hurricane Grace dropped a good amount of rainfall on Michoacán, the outer bands of the East Pacific Hurricane...

For the past few weeks, my posts have been thematic, rather than reporting on my latest outings. To be honest, this is because the...

I got back into birding less than a decade ago, long after moving to Mexico in 1983. So I can hardly speak with authority...

Many thrushes live or winter in Mexico, but their taxonomy is mostly quite simple. Eight of our large thrushes (the American Robin, western Mexico’s...

Those infinitely patient saints who read all my ramblings know that over the past year I have been obsessed with the gradual disappearance of...

I wrote, a few weeks ago, about seeing my first Sedge (now Grass) Wrens through the kind invitation of a local biologist, and new...

Twice a year, in February and July, I make a pilgrimage to the Hot Country (Tierra Caliente) thorn forest zone around Paso Ancho, Michoacán....

Of all my favorite birding sites, by far the closest to home is la Cañada de los Filtros Viejos (“the Canyon of the Old...