Here in the southern part of North America, it’s hard to come up with a family of birds that is more colorful than the...

Morelia is a city surrounded on three sides by pine/oak forest. Go a little farther and you can also find different kinds of thorn...

Early this week, I took a birding guide and his wife from Cancún to my favorite site for Michoacán’s Hot Country endemics. But the...

Most birders refer to some bird species as their nemesis. That is what we call a bird we probably should have seen already, but...

Back when I rediscovered birding, somewhere in 2012 or 2013, it was hard to find anyone here in Morelia who even knew of this...

The migration of North America’s Monarch Butterflies (Danaus Plexippus Plexippus) is one of the wonders of the natural world. Unlike our feathered friends’ migration,...

While I have picked up 26 lifers so far this year, all but seven have been from outside of Mexico, and only two have...

So I haven’t had much birding excitement to write about in the past couple of weeks. But I have been able to enjoy going...