One of the quandaries of birding in Costa Rica is deciding where to go birding. Where do you go when there are so many...

Shorebirds (in Europe: waders) must be an acquired birding taste. No one starts birding dreaming of drab-coloured, unobtrusive and, far on a mud-bar, largely...

Louisiana is known for a lot of things. Mardis Gras, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, crawfish, oil production, coastal erosion, chemical plants; all encompassed within...

Spring is happening! Each day, the sun stays out just a bit longer and up north, the snow is old, feeble and on its...

Before leaving Olguita’s on the second day in Costa Rica, I spotted this migrant male Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) pictured above, but I also enjoyed...

In Costa Rica, we have two coasts, a pair of shorelines that touch two oceans. To the west and south, we have the Pacific,...

Some five years ago I was involved in a project of ecotourism evaluation of the river Danube in Serbia, which included the city of...

I recently returned from a twelve day birding tour of Costa Rica with Lifer Tours guided by an incredible birder, David Rodriquez. I began...