May migration is legendary. It’s when Biggest Week happens, in many places, the fifth month is when it gets truly warm, when we can...

Every week during the COVID crisis has felt like at least a month, but now that we’re deep into May, nobody is complaining. We...

As the peak of spring migration in the northern hemisphere, May is always an exciting but exhausting month for birders in North America. For...

The coronavirus has locked us all in, literally, doing something that was totally unthinkable only a few months ago: it has prevented us from...

I have commented before in my posts that most of our Warblers here in central Mexico never actually warble. This tendency is so marked...

May delivers one of those amazing times of the year when we’re too busy looking at birds to sit around talking about them. Let’s...

If you’re out in the woods this spring, trying to see the Woodcock (like that below, left) in the evening, doing his skydance, or...

Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos have become a regular sight around Broome in recent weeks. They are usually heard before they are seen and call raucously as...