Like so many, the majority of my birding since the Covid-19 pandemic began has centered on my own backyard and local walking excursions. But...

Trinidad’s cloud forests typically aren’t birded much. After all, the habitat is restricted to the highest and mostly inaccessible reaches of the mountain range...

Among all the birding locations I have found, Pino Real was my first love. I was just getting back into birding, and had only...

Comprehensive surveys of U.S. birders are rare, so the recent release of a “National Survey of Birdwatchers: Nationwide and Flyway Comparisons” is notable. Although...

With the sad passing of Prince Philip this week I thought I should share with you a book that we own that he wrote....

A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school.  He found some solace when, at age eleven,...

I will soon be just one year short of Sir Paul McCartney’s mythical musical age (64, that is, not his current age), in which...

In many ways, birding has led me straight to my new interest in wildflowers.  Looking for birds naturally makes you more aware of your...