The ranger stood on the dirt road, facing south, and the rest of us, scattered about the parked safari truck, facing north and paying...

The squawk is unmistakable, a harsh, high-pitched cry with undertones of bass, lasting about 2-seconds, followed by a second, then a third “Squaaawwwk.”  It’s...

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome...

I was happy to read that the Wood Stork (Mycteria americana), a bird near and dear to me, was down-sited from the status of...

The first time I saw a puffin, it was a revelation. I’d seen pictures of them, of course – the stocky, flamboyantly-beaked little seabirds...

As has often been said in these quarters, in general us bird bloggers don’t have many quarrels with hunters. Birders and hunters usually share...

The Pantanal is a vast, seasonally flooded wetland — the largest in the world — in the southwest corner of the state of Mato...

When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at...