Growing up in Niagara Falls, New York, June was a celebration of summer. It was finally, actually, truly warm outside and it was therefore...

Global Big Day is an initiative created by the folks at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to promote the use of eBird and birding...

In the birding world, May is the beautiful time. With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is...

Costa Rica is a small yet very birdy country (readers may have gotten that impression on previous posts I have written for 10,000 Birds,...

I had no intention of making a questionnaire or analysing the results. I was just curious what the US birders dream about, so I...

One of the quandaries of birding in Costa Rica is deciding where to go birding. Where do you go when there are so many...

Spring is happening! Each day, the sun stays out just a bit longer and up north, the snow is old, feeble and on its...

Before leaving Olguita’s on the second day in Costa Rica, I spotted this migrant male Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) pictured above, but I also enjoyed...