As my days get shorter and shorter here in La Paz, Mexico, I find that my birding has changed a bit. Where, in the...

Stick birds. Rock birds. Plastic bag birds. Leaf birds. Stump birds. Branch birds. Snow birds. Lump birds. Pipe birds. Plastic birds. Every birder has...

Two weekends into the new year, I’m already wondering if the weather will be this volatile every month. This crazy climate change must be...

Last year we had an odd observation concerning a Greater Sand Plover. This marked individual had completely normal plumage when it was captured and...

Most of you will be more comfortable with the name Common Merganser, but the Brits still like to use Goosander. Whichever one you prefer,...

A new year inspires in birders the same mad ambition a fresh canvas ignites in painters. No matter how many phenomenal years you have...

My time here on the Baja has become somewhat limited, so Sunday morning found me up before daylight, and driving over to Conquista Agraria....

On January first my year list, just like every other birder’s year list, reverted to zero. Every single species, even the European Starlings above,...