The Birdchaser

Sometimes we birders take ourselves too seriously. Perhaps if Weird Al were to present at the next ABA conference in Quito, Ecuador, he mi...

I'm off on Monday to attend the North American Ornithological Conference in Veracruz, Mexico. If anyone else is down there, look me up ...

This morning, after heavy rains last night, there were quite a few Indigo Buntings in the fields and woods behind my office. In 20 minutes ...

Is this the problem with birding? We've seen active birding and backyard birdwatching numbers declinging for a decade now. Is birdi...

Check out the latest I and the Bird blog carnival at Don't Mess with Taxes . While my own blogging has been a bit telegraphic lately, ...

But not the dangerous kind. More details here . Remember that there are highly pathogenic forms of H5N1 and low pathogenic forms that do n...

According to this recent study , Archaeopteryx had feathered hind limbs that helped it glide from tree to tree, adding evidence that bird fl...

After months of rumor, we finally can see the evidence that Auburn University researchers have for believing that Ivory-billed Woodpeckers s...

My family and I spent a couple days last week on Hog Island at the Audubon camp. Last month the Common Eiders were molting and looking mos...

A week ago I took the family up for a working vacation to Maine and we stopped by a couple spots to look for rare birds. First stop was a T...

After a week and a half of work, we ended up our trip at Antigua, Guatemala for an evening and morning of walking around the colonial city b...

Monday, September 11 found me high in the mountains above the highland Guatemalan town of Cobán. After hours of bus rides from Copán, Hondu...

We spent the night at Hacienda San Lucas , a great place just across the river from the ruins at Copán. After a great five course dinner (t...

Saturday morning we loaded up our stuff and headed over to Copán Ruinas, Honduras. A Cinnamon Hummingbird and a White-collared Seedeater ...

Friday morning we walked along the river west of Jocotan and found additional species including Black Phoebe, Green Kingfisher, Black-necked...

On Thursday, we learned our lesson--ride a truck up the mountain and hike back down. Still, we walked a long way and I went through water l...

Wednesday turned out to be the best birding yet. We took a bus to San Juan Ermita, a municipio west of Jocotan, and hiked about 5 miles st...

Tuesday, September 5, we headed out early to walk around the aldea above Jocotan. We concentrated on finding the birds that our informant k...

Monday, September 4 was my first day of ethnoornithology field work in Jocotan. I had come down to Guatemala to help Kerry Hull , a linguis...

After five hours on buses and vans, we arrived at Jocotan (about half an hour from the Honduras border east of Chiquimula) in a pouring thun...