As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, birding in Michoacán has required that I find most of my own hotspots. As distancing has...

With their exceptional metabolism, Hummingbirds are almost constantly on the move to find each season’s best feeding grounds. My area of central Mexico is...

It’s not like civilization as we know it is coming to an end. At least, I hope it isn’t. Yet. But many of the...

When I was a young man growing up in Northern California, I thought I knew all about Juncos. Juncos are cute  little woodland sparrows....

I am a nerd. The nerd part of me, which dates back to before the word was popularized, did not do me well during...

I should have been on my way to Istanbul by the time this post came out. That trip was to take my wife and...

I have previously written about the central Mexican highlands’ very own microendemic species, the Black-polled Yellowthroat. This bird is only found around three lakes...

My area of central Mexico has a true monsoon climate. That means that we have little or no rain through the winter months, and...