I don’t think I’ve ever done a post on my home patch of Cape Town, South Africa. This place is such an epic birding...

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, AKA Tinicum, is an outstanding urban oasis in southern Philadelphia, less than one mile from Philadelphia’s airport.  Being a...

The Brown Booby is a bird that helps explain why birders don’t always want to share what they are doing with non-birders.  Explaining to...

I spent this past weekend at the coast, travelling to Arcata for a Northern California Audubon Council meeting hosted by the Redwood Region Audubon...

It is early, pre-dawn, and the sky is just lightening in the east when you arrive.  You park your car, gather your optical equipment,...

Costa Rica enjoys an international reputation as an iconic birding location, bursting with epic Neotropical species and breathtaking natural attractions.  The country blazed broad...

Last week I was doing a birding tour of the east and west slopes of Ecuador and encountered some warblers that have already made...

We’ve all heard the rough calculus equating a bird in the hand to two in the bush. One has to wonder, however, whether certain...