We know Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon as just Buffon – arguably the greatest natural historian of the 18th century. He is the Frenchman...

Several years ago, I was exposed to the lyrical, poetic prose of a Grand Trunk advertisement.  This hammock dealer deftly used imagery to sell...

In a strange city on business, with more than just a few hours to spare? You want to do some serious birding? You need...

My recent posts may have given the impression that business birding is always exotic, on remote islands or with lots of birds. Seeing Solitary...

Work brings me regularly to Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, northern Mexico. Monterrey is a big industrial city, with industrious people. It is a special...

The Tagus estuary (Estuário do Tejo) is a very important stop-over on the East Atlantic Flyway. The birding delights of the estuary are a...

Before anything else, a confession. Most of the lifers I saw in Denver were named after (in)famous people, so Messrs. Say, Bullock, Brewer, and...

When I grew up in the seventies we didn’t have global warming, we had global cooling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling). Consequently, the summer weather was awful, always....