The Birdchaser

The Tz'utujil Mayan town of Santiago Atitlan on the shores of Lake Atitlan is known in Tz'utujil as the "House of Birds". ...

While walking around colonial Antigua, Guatemala, we spotted this little guy on a wire above the busy sidewalk (yeah, look carefully, he...

I've already blogged about the fake cactus wren nests in California over at Audubon Birdscapes . Now the LA Times has a short video: ...

Unfortunately, most Mayan archaeological sites don't open up first thing in the morning, when the birds are most active. By the time we...

We met Francisco at the Deer Dance , and he drove us several places in his pickup truck. A Q'eqchi' Maya who came to Belize from Gu...

A highlight of our research trip was spending three nights in the village of San Jose , deep in the Toledo District of Belize near the Guat...

Through the Toledo Ecotourism Association , we hooked up with Sylvano Sho, an expert Mopan Maya naturalist and authority on local medicinal ...

While scheduling our week of collecting Mopan and Q'eqchi' Mayan bird names and folklore, we heard that one of the local communities...

Our base of operations for our first few days in Belize was The Lodge at Big Falls . Almost 30 acres of secondary forest and nice bungalows...

After a long delayed flight to Guatemala City, we started our two week research trip to Guatemala and Belize with a five hour bus ride to Pu...

Latest word from the American Ornithological Union--condors may never be fully self-sustaining in the wild ( see story here ). Is it worth ...

The California Condor featured in this YouTube video died this weekend from led poisoning .

Last night on the drive back home from the airport, I saw a couple Common Nighthawks wing past at dusk. I'll be looking for them from ...

I love quetzals. I love chocolate. So this chocolate quetzal sculpture really caught my eye!

While I'm in Belize looking at real toucans, here's an old classic for you... And of course, proving that our special talents and ab...

Is it just me, or are real birds more interesting than those concocted by folks selling beer?

Yellow-billed Magpies, native only to California, have proven extremely vulnerable to West Nile Virus infections. An article in the latest ...

I'm off for two weeks of collecting Mayan bird names and folklore in Belize and Guatemala. I've got some fun posts ready to go live...

There's one of these big boys in south Texas right now . Don't you wish you were there!?!

According to this story , magpies share the ability to recognize themselves in a mirror--a trait thought to be shared by relatively few spec...