The name says it all. Costa Rica. The “Rich Coast” is stuffed full of birds and has wonderful biological richness. For many US birders...

One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC) is a proposal to split Old World and New...

This is part 2 of the Wallcreeper trilogy, the part which will feature the story of my success. You might want to read part...

As I have probably already mentioned, I was in southern California over the holidays.  Before I headed out there from my home in New...

The USGS has determined that the blackbirds in Arkansas “died from impact trauma” and that is consistent with what the state determined, which is...

QUIZ ANSWER Too many zeros.  I cannot count. You write, you edit, and you edit, and you edit.  And still something gets through that...

To each lifer, there is a story. Sometimes, the story can be very short, a mere line in the notebook without a memory attached.  Sometimes, the...

Now that the rush to populate your 2011 year list has subsided (or never truly inflamed you to begin with) birding becomes a little...