Even though it’s late April, it was below freezing here in Albany, New York today as I stood in my backyard drinking my morning...

My state of Michoacán has a wide variety of nectarivorous birds. (Nectarivorous: that’s my new word for this week!) Most, of course, are hummingbirds....

April tends to be one of those months that contain multitudes, at once as temperate as any spring or fall but then turning quickly...

I am so happy to be back on 10,000 birds – I have missed Mike and Corey and my fellow Beat Writers!Normally I rant...

It is that time of year again when we start to see the shorebirds around Broome change into their beautiful breeding plumage. We then...

When I picked up a bottle of this week’s featured wine last March at a shop in southern Quebec (on my last trip out...

Last Sunday, it was raining hard, but I went out to Chongming Island, a part of Shanghai, anyway. Mostly I went because some farmers...

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...