The Birdchaser

 My most recent article with Kerry Hull based on our Maya Ethnoornithology research has been published in the journal Human Ecology. Here is...

Gwitawo'yo  is the  Northern/Eastern Shoshoni  name for the  Black-billed Magpie .  Since I started the year in Northern Utah, this was ...

My very first post on this blog, 21 years ago, was a successful Thanksgiving Wild Turkey search with my three kids. We tried it several oth...

 "O n the morning of a  beautiful , clear day, early in the spring" of 1820, a young Joseph Smith retired to the woods near his ho...

OK, it isn't Groundhog Day, but here we go again. As was the case last year, my first bird this year was a Blue Jay. So lets try this ag...

So this past year has been momentous. I took a new job at the Palmyra Temple in Palmyra, New York in January, we finally sold our house in ...

My first bird of 2024 this morning was a Blue Jay I heard from inside before I even left the house. So 2024 will be the Year of the Blue Ja...

 A couple years ago I posted this on the eBird discussion group in Facebook-- Very happy that this year eBird overhauled their database so t...

One of the things I love about birding is the window it provides onto the changing seasons, and the connection that fosters to the natural w...

So this may be the road most travelled by for me, I-80 out to Utah and back. We've done this drive several times, and when we are in a h...

Today marks 42 years as a birder. While I had been watching birds casually for awhile before then, 10 August 1981 is the day it really start...

Today I spent a beautiful morning out at  Boa Ogoi (Shoshone:Big River AKA Bear River) with Darren Parry , a member of the Northwestern Band...

Lat month my son Michael and I had a quick roadtrip out west, 7083 miles in 12 days. Not a lot of time for any real birding, but did log 175...

Another year in the books, and another year where I didn't leave the U.S. and hardly traveled outside of Pennsylvania. Here's to mor...

 October 18 marks my 20th anniversary as an eBird user!  Can't believe it has been 20 years!   As an old man, I now look back and see th...