As I mentioned last week, the world seems to have turned upside down lately, at least here in central Mexico. After a devastatingly dry...

I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change. Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic...

Well, I have been away from this site, for far too long. I’m sorry. And since I suspect there may be others out there...

When you have birded a single area as much and for as long as I have birded Michoacán, it becomes progressively harder to find...

Well, it is July again. July is the month when some of Mexico’s best birders (and I don’t use that term lightly) ask me...

Down here at the southern end of so many birds’ annual migrations, spring can be a melancholy time. Between March and May, we say...

EBird really knows how to push my buttons. I mean that in a good way: By automatically showing one’s new year list each January...

Recently, I wrote about my many and fortunate interactions with biologist friends in 2021. I mentioned taking an ornithologist friend to the nearby property...