Chasing the mystery elaenia which showed up in Chicago in 2012—where my girls at? That’s the question asked by this very detailed and thoughtful...

        There’s an apartment building just across the alley from mine. It’s a real…”fixer upper” to say the least. It’s been...

The Grey-headed Robin of Australia is not a robin as Americans would know one (thinking, inexplicably, that a thrush is a robin), nor is...

How are seasons like species? In both instances, we can have trouble telling where one ends and the other begins. We’re in the midst...

The main flow of the North American wood warbler migration has passed me by again and I have had to visit the far reaches...

Looking for boobies? Look up, at least if you are birding coastal Chile like Renato was! Birding and parenting don’t always go together well....

I have a confession that I hope won’t get me kicked off this blog: I have no idea where my life list currently stands....

The most flamboyant of all hummers, the Marvelous Spatuletail will be one of the many endemic bird highlights along the route of the Second...