Well, as you read this I will be sitting on an aeroplane heading from Busan to Hong Kong to Sydney….time to go home! I...

It is not every day that one gets a taste of Cape May while at Magee Marsh.  In fact, this might be the beginning...

First let me put forward my credentials for writing about butterflies. This is the second time that I have been butterfly watching and…..well, actually,...

I was somewhere around Pittsburgh on the edge of Ohio when the boredom began to kick in.  Instead of talking on the cell phone,...

Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change. The task of wrestling this topic down into...

The Little Blue Heron, like most (all?) herons and egrets, flies with its neck bent and its head drawn in close to the body so...

Since watching robo-whimbrels took a sudden morbid turn, let’s follow migrating loons! The U.S. Geological Survey Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) is tracking the...

All of us who identify ourselves as birders are thrillingly familiar with the sense of discovery, accomplishment, and even adventure that goes hand in...