Easter weekend carries deep spiritual significance for many around the world, but Sunday also symbolizes the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. With...

You’ll have to bear with another short and sweet review this week at Birds and Booze. Not only is spring migration picking up even...

Now that Jeanne and I have settled here in Tucson, Arizona, we have been questioned by our friends dozens of times…..Why Tucson? Do you...

No matter where you find yourself, you can count on a birding surprise or two this time of year. What was yours? I was...

During our three weeks of bird-watching in Singapore we didn’t only encounter large birds like the Asian Openbill and the Oriental Pied Hornbill. There...

Mid-April marks a critical juncture in progression of seasons. While the Northern Hemisphere hasn’t progressed even a third of the way through calendar spring,...

Just a quick review today. Spring migration in upstate New York has been picking up this week and I’ve been doing more birding than...

A while back, I wrote about an under-appreciated part of the National Wildlife Refuge System:  Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). Although little-known, WPAs provide critical...