John Mark Simmons, the co-founder of Two Birders and Binoculars, has enjoyed birding all his life and has won various birding competitions.  John Mark...

As I’ve switched over to paid corporate birding (doing bird surveys for companies that want to put up wind farms or transmission lines), I’ve...

As 10,000 Birds’ New Zealand beat writer, I sometimes should write about New Zealand birds, but today I thought I’d talk about a bird...

While those to the north are busy wallowing in shorebirds of impressive diversity and numbers, we to the south sit and wait for the...

Hot enough for you? If you’re suffering through a sweltering patch of record summer heat, you may feel much as Ralph Waldo Emerson did...

Grey-headed Flying Foxes have been roosting in a large colony in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens for many years now and their popularity with visitors is matched by...

Last night, a buddy of mine said, “Hey, have you seen Long Weekend? It has a terrifying manatee in it!” Since that is a...

The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students...