Every single summer when I am out experiencing the mud and heat and shorebirds on the the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge...

If you read my weekly posts bookending the weekend birding experience, you know that I pay close attention to phenology. The way the ebb and...

Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and...

It rains a lot in Costa Rica. There are places in the country soaked with an average of four meters of a rain a...

Hoping for a hot one this weekend, though maybe not Africa desert hot!  While most humans tend towards vagrancy, at least in the vacationing...

I’m in Sydney for a week of family, birding, diving and enjoying the subtropical climate. Okay, it may not be that hot, but it...

Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones. The American...

Summer weather ain’t what it used to be around these parts. An ill-timed polar vortex has sucked all the heat–and fun— out of mid-summer....