Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping...

For far too long there has been a bird that North American birders have mocked, derided, persecuted, hated, and, perhaps worse of all, ignored. ...

New York City, June 2008 The title of this post pretty much says it all. A couple of weeks ago I watched and photographed...

This time of year we birders are all about firsts.  The slow return of breeding birds to the higher latitudes has every one of...

Whoo-hoo! It is now, on 20 March 2012, spring!  Take that, southern hemisphere! Here in New York it has felt like spring for, well,...

Colombia is not only home to nearly 20% of all avian life on the planet but this birding mecca also accommodates an incredibly high...

Do people go birding while inebriated?  There is the blog The Drinking Bird, but what about the drinking birder?  Birdchick hosts Birds and Beers...

Buteo lineatus, the Red-shouldered Hawk, is a gorgeous bird. Before January I had come across the very red birds of the western United States...