Watching birds, birding, is inexorably tied to autonomous motivation. Maybe that’s why birders just might be obsessive about it or at least, very much...

Sometime in early modern history, European haute cuisine lost its appetite for spice. After centuries of hungering for the rarest and costliest of aromatic...

One of the many things I love about Mexico is the quality of its “trash birds”. You may have heard that phrase among birders;...

Yellow-faced Honeyeaters–Calygavis chrysops are found in the eastern and south eastern parts of Australia. They are not present in Western Australia or the Northern Territory,...

At the top of Newport Bay in Orange County, Ca., the tide is almost spent. A higher tide than today might have ventured up...

Michael Herr (and other people before him) once stated that “War is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.” When replacing...

Most birders that have spent any amount of time chasing down our fine feathered friends have learned that most cities waste treatment facilities are...

I love living in central Mexico, and miss very few things about living in the U.S. Of course, I also love birding in Mexico,...