I have written six posts in the last two weeks, in preparation for a long-awaited month-long vacation. (We will be finishing up that trip...

Warning: Any and all flycatchers shown in this post may be misidentified. Cut me some slack. These are the Empidonax flycatchers we are talking...

Back in November of 2017, I travelled to the tourist town of Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s west coast, to sing in a Christian event....

Last week I told you about one of my favorite places to visit at this time of year, the tiny town of Laurelito, Michoacán,...

Central Mexico, where I live, has a monsoon climate. In other words, we tend to have heavy rains from late May or June through...

We all have them: families of birds that are maddeningly similar, forever leaving nagging doubts about our identifications. Gulls. Terns. New World Warblers in...

Most birders love a good double-hyphenate. Except, of course, for those who don’t yet know what a double-hyphenate is. Double-hyphenates are birds with two...

I was born in Minnesota. Had my life taken a different turn, and had I remained in that state, I would be intimately acquainted...