The Amazon is the best place to see jacamars, so my wife and I were very happy to find a few of these large-insect...

Georg Wilhelm Steller was never in the Rockies in the first place. Also, he has been dead for more than 250 years now. Many...

Here is a very quick quiz for those of you with a short attention span.  This quiz is simple, straightforward, and to the point,...

We’re a couple of weeks into 2011 now, so take a moment to reassess. Have you lived the last two weeks like you’d like...

Here’s a quick bit of fun for the trivially inclined. What do Gray Catbird, Chuck-will’s-Widow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rusty Blackbird and Red-bellied Woodpecker have in...

This is the last part of my Wallcreeper trilogy in which I will tell the tale of another day, the day I set out...

I read a news report on Tuesday that said 70% of the contiguous United States had snow cover.  Up in Minnesota, it’s a whole...

There are penguins and then there are penguins.  This particular penguin, a Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua, is one heck of a brave (or foolhardy)...