The afternoon of our first full day in Ecuador was spent at Yanacocha Preserve, a high-altitude elfin forest on the slopes of Volcan Pichincha,...

Ummm… yeah maybe I should explain. I’m not quitting already. I mean, I’ve only been a “beat blogger” for a few weeks now. No,...

While I have already given a tiny taste of birding in Ecuador and shared the triumph of my amazingly beautiful 1,000th bird, I haven’t...

James Bond had an Aston Martin DB5, suits from Saville Row and his trusty Walther PPK. John Steed, from ‘The Avengers’ preferred the Bentley,...

One of the things about being a birder is that you become, in the eyes of your non-birdy friends, the “bird guy”. In my...

If you did not pay attention to your geography teacher then this is your chance to excel beyond the rest of the people who...

By the time this post goes up onto the interwebs I will be winging my way to the South American paradise of Ecuador, which...

It is not every day that you get a phone call alerting you to a bird in your state that has never been in...