As I have commented on more than one occasion, I have used this pandemic season as motivation to try out a number of new,...

It was the month of March, 2017, when I went to Lake Cuitzeo to check up on our migratory waterfowl and shorebirds one last...

I suspect that most non-birders don’t particularly like the word “split”, since the first thing that it brings to mind is perhaps a bad...

Should you ever come to bird in central Mexico, and you are only interested in our wonderful endemics, feel free to come in the...

I finally had to get a new laptop last week. While almost everything is up and running beautifully, I haven’t managed to figure out...

Those of us who were raised in the four-season north (here in Michoacán one could define, at the most, three seasons) tend to think...

We birders have a different perspective of the world from most other people. To us, borders seem much more porous, and somewhat less real....

In C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, one of the many fantastic characters is a rather human-like frog creature named Puddleglum. Puddleglum is an endlessly pessimistic,...