Birding the Dry Tortugas in late April has always been high on my bucket-list of the best birding experiences in North America. Now before...
Tubenose. No, it’s not part of a Shakespearean insult. Tubenoses are seabirds that belong to an order called Procellariiformes (from a Latin word for...
Long before I moved in New Zealand, or visited or even knew much about the wildlife here, way back then I knew about the...
The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is what oceanographers call ultraoligotrophic, meaning that it has low primary productivity. Basically there just aren’t enough nutrients to sustain...
Iceland Gulls do not breed in Iceland. They do winter there, as well as in northern parts of Europe, in eastern and central Canada,...
When a pelagic trip is short of great new birds to watch there is almost always the chum scrum to entertain the despondent birder....
A big bruiser of a bird, the Glaucous Gull is nothing if not bulky. It sometimes looks like a gull built from a child’s...
Christmas and my current trip north means that I’ll be taking a break from my six-part examination of New Zealand extinctions this week. Instead...
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