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...