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...

By the time this post is published, I will be on a short trip to Spain, though not principally for birding purposes. So I...

The last couple of weeks have really been a boom for me personally, as far as spotting our local owls goes. Getting to actually...

Weekends, whether long or short, usually produce opportunities for noteworthy moments. Hopefully, you manufactured one or two of the avian observation variety. Most of...

The Central Catchment Nature Reserve in Singapore is a huge area that covers over 2,000 hectares of forest. There are over twenty kilometres of...

Here comes summer. The beats have been embracing the benign weather and cruising gently into the crazy, hazy, lazy days of summer. The trend...

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