This is the first October in three years I haven’t been vacationing in California. But I felt I should at least return in spirit...
October is a good month to see owls in Shanghai, where these birds are rare in most other months. Two species can be seen...
Warning: Any and all flycatchers shown in this post may be misidentified. Cut me some slack. These are the Empidonax flycatchers we are talking...
At five-forty-five Sunday morning I started the eBird checklist while perched atop the Battery Harris Platform at Fort Tilden. It was the sixth year...
Mid-October birding can be as exciting as you–and wind and weather conditions–allow it to be. Did everything needed for a phenomenal weekend come together...
Last week during a camping trip to Kununurra we encountered a Radjah Shelduck family in one of the irrigation channels around town. We had...
Bird migration! In October, it’s what’s happening in Costa Rica. Our big month of bird movements in Costa Rica, the 10th month of the...
Why do people become birders? There must be an endless number of individual reasons, and an endless number of stories worth telling about it...
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