Pelagic trips are a gamble on the vastness of the ocean. They can be incredibly dull or amazingly exciting on smooth seas or big...

Wow, those are a lot of Oriental Pratincoles! How is your 2015 year list looking so far? If you’re around 300 species, you’ve been keeping...

No doubt that one of the fun parts of birding is being able to identify birds in the field. Getting to a point where...

The “Blue Goose” is the dark morph of the Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens). Click on photos for full sized images. Color morphs are controlled...

It’s January, it’s very cold, and I don’t have much time to bird. Where do I go? Forest Park! Though the diversity of species...

When you ask someone who is into gulls for help identifying a specific bird the conversation can get horribly dull amazingly quickly. Molt, windows,...

The month of January has so much to offer, from tropical migrants in the equatorial zones to visitors from the poles in our more...

We have just had a few rather wet days and it is just what the land needed. The ideal rain comes from a tropical...