Costa Rica has long been one of the more frequently visited global birding hotspots. Stable, easy to visit, and with lots of accessible habitats,...

Screech-owls don’t actually screech. It’s true and yet that was the name they were given. I suppose that sounds better than “tremulous”, “modulating”, or...

Tennessee Warblers? Costa Rica? Oh yes. If you are headed to Costa Rica for birding from now until March, you will probably see more...

Sulphur crested Cockatoo taken with phone The Bunya Mountains is an attractive destination but also a great birding location. Some 200 kilometres from the...

Technically, we were in the Orinoco River Basin of wider Amazonia. Yet, unlike the black shoe-sucking mud of Amazon further south, this is Amazonia...

2022 is here, the future is now! I look at that date and as with many others who were born in or before the...

Have you ever birded a place so young that birds still have no names? …– part 2 –After I have finished writing this, with...

Winter birding can be fun, especially when you do it in a place with palms, parrots, and weather for wearing shorts. This is where...