Birding in Costa Rica wouldn’t be complete without a fine cup of coffee (or two). Smooth, tasty, and rejuvenating, the beans grown in the...

In birding circles, Costa Rica is better known for protected areas, quetzal tours, and glittering displays of hummingbirds than the things that fly in...

“That bird! Go! Go! Get it! That bird, chase it! Chase it!” In a flash, our small deep sea fishing boat went from casually...

Birds are arriving in North America, flying from places far to the south. Many come from Central America, a good number fly much further....

Spring in western New York was and is a time of melting snow, of ice chunks being rushed along the Niagara River, of when...

Quetzal Valley! Does such a place really exist? I mean, it sounds like something from an eco-cartoon where all the animals live in cloud...

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to...

Costa Rica is a tropical country but it doesn’t have to be hot. Crunched and uplifted by plate tectonics, its also a mountainous, volcanic...