Another long, lovely summer weekend has slipped into history. Midsummer will be giving way any moment to late summer. I know that families in...

I fully realize that my last post was not a bird post in the strictest sense. As a matter of fact, one might surmise...

The beautiful landscape that would one day become Pilanesberg National Park, was formed when a volcano collapsed in on itself, leaving concentric rings of...

Have you ever seen a Boab tree? Birds in Australia love them! Everyone I know in the Northern Hemisphere is either traveling or receiving...

The veranda at the Asa Wright Nature Center, one of the most storied and highly-lauded birding ecolodge destinations in the world, is a simply...

Pat O’Donnell over at Costa Rica Living and Birding maps out a potential hummingbird-only big day route that could net the ambitious birder forty...

I am sure you know how it goes…when you are a birder, your friends (non-birders) will tell bird stories, anecdotes or ask questions about...

The male Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) is unmistakable. He is the only tanager with strong wing bars, the anterior wing bar (median coverts) being...