So there I was, with three birding buddies, in a rare outing to a site only on the very edge of Morelia’s urban area....

A pattern seems to be developing this summer, of birds with really striking faces. First there was the Lesser Ground-Cuckoo, a species I had...

Two weeks ago, I wrote here about what may end up being my Bird of the Year for 2024: a Lesser Ground-Cuckoo which gave...

Oxford Languages defines a bluenose as a “priggish or puritanical” person. Oddly enough, it can also refer to a person from Nova Scotia. I...

Some birds are especially exciting, because they are so hard to see. Others are unusually beautiful, or perhaps, just plain unusual. And a few...

I have mixed feelings about ranking different bird species. One of my ornithologist friends appears to be happy counting House Sparrows and Eurasian Collared...

As I have written before on this site, I consider even a bad day birding to still be a great walk in the woods....

Another week, another week without birding. We spoke this weekend at a church in Toluca, three hours away, and I got back too tired...