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...

As I have mentioned repeatedly over the past months, life this spring has gone topsy-turvy in central Mexico, as we experience what has certainly...

We had dear guests from the Middle East staying with us on Monday, my usual birding day. So this week, instead of writing about...

So here is where we were a week ago in central Mexico: Some of the country’s most important and largest lakes, such as Lake...

It seems that almost none of the major storylines in my life were the result of any planning on my part. I studied music...

If you have birded very long, you are probably aware that members of closely related bird species, when their ranges overlap, sometimes love each...