Where to go birding without the crowds in our busiest national park (with an update at the bottom). In the Great Smoky Mountains National...

It’s all been happening this month. Just when we thought that the beats deserved a quiet month after the exertions of May, they came...

These are the summer months of the northern hemisphere and yet this time of year in Costa Rica is known as the “invierno”, Spanish...

July rarely ranks high in the list of top birding months. Too few species on the move makes for the same old same old....

One of my early memories of birds is the abundance of Ospreys I saw after moving from Syracuse, New York downstate to eastern Long...

As you know, I started to bird from a canoe, exploring the Danube backwaters in Belgrade, Serbia. Those foreland backwaters stretch all along the...

After leaving Africa, I was fearing a real let down in my birding. New Zealand had been good, Australia was incredible, and South Africa...

The birding around Lago de Yojoa in Honduras is frankly phenomenal, as I learned during a June 2018 birding junket organized by the Instituto...