A few weeks ago, I spent a few days at Jixi, Anhui, a relatively rural place about 2.5 hours away from Shanghai by high-speed...

There are a lot of birds in Washington, DC. Oh sure, you can go to Rock Creek Park or the Tidal Basin to seek out living...

For many folks who live in places with cold winters, toucans are the birds on cereal boxes. While growing up in western New York...

The tropical habitats of Costa Rica are home to a surprising number of raptor species. Although the country is around the same size as...

For sure, this is an odd sight, can you even imagine an agile swimmer such as cormorant drowning in the water? But let’s start...

Growing up in Niagara Falls, New York, June was a celebration of summer. It was finally, actually, truly warm outside and it was therefore...

It’s still dark at 5 am when the alarm on my mobile phone wakes me up in a spacious guest house room in Chikhaldara...

Global Big Day is an initiative created by the folks at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to promote the use of eBird and birding...