India, February 2013 I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. It is February and evenings...

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Like my two previous visits I...

Maharashtra, February 2013 Trying not to inhale so much of the dust cloud that envelops us, I am sporting a bandana tied bank-robber style....

Gujarat, December 2010 Target for today: critically endangered Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius). The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone...

In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a target species list I...

If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on...

It’s always tragic when a species goes extinct. But that tragedy is compounded when the species at risk is a country’s national bird. (Americans...

It’s deja vu all over again, sadly. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. The...