For our fourth day of birding in Ecuador we had two stops planned.  The excellent but small Rio Salanche Bird Sanctuary, a property owned...

This morning dawned clear and sunny, not the weather one wants when one has committed to not birding for the day.  When local listservs...

Refugio Paz de las Aves is an amazing place to bird.  Though I have already written one blog post detailing the most amazing birding...

Lema Ranch is one of Northern California’s birding hotspots. It is located in Shasta County, in the northern most part of the Sacramento Valley,...

Though Jones Beach State Park on the south shore of Long Island is rightfully famous for its beaches there is far more than the...

It should now be clear why Ecuador is a great country for birding, if not then visit my previous blog “Ecuador Hotspots Regions”.  The...

Until today I had never seen a Fork-tailed Flycatcher.  It seems somehow fitting that a mere week after returning from my first visit to...

For our second day in Ecuador we had plans for the entire group of Queens birders to take the hour-and-a-half long drive from Pululahua...