The Birdchaser

I'm not sure if its my recent 40th birthday, or the upcoming 4th anniversary of this blog, or what, but I seem to be succumbing to some ...

Despite the photo I'm talking about my recent bird sightings, not the actor . The last couple weeks have been pretty light on the birdi...

Someone once told me that you know what you are by what you do when you don't have to do anything. With a free day or morning on your ca...

Here's a report on damage caused by Hurricane Ike at High Island. It sounds pretty bad, but could have been worse. It'll probably...

When I was a kid in Oregon, we made ourselves giddy even thinking about something like this. Now it has happened, a Wandering Albatross (2n...

I've posted a Beginner's Guide to Bird Blogs on the Audubon Birdscapes blog for the I and the Bird #84 blog carnival. Enjoy!

Read my Babelgum interview here !

Here's the sad story of a woman in the UK killed by a rat trapped in her birdfeeder. Always wear gloves when dealing with wild animal...

With generous funding from Reitaku University in Japan, Mayan linguist Kerry Hull and I spent 17 days in Guatemala and Belize collecting Mo...

Of course, the one bird we didn't see on Lake Atitlan is the now extinct Poc, or Giant Grebe . The last of these large flightless wate...

Our base of operations while we were in Santiago Atitlan was the Hotel Bambu --with a nice set of bungalows and other accommodations. Food...

The Catholic church in Santiago Atitlan has a famous altar featuring traditional Mayan beliefs mixed with more traditional Catholic imagery ...

While in Santiago Atitlan, we did some work with the priests of Maximón , a local saint who may well be the modern version of the old Mayan ...

One morning we paddled across Lake Atitlan from Santiago to visit the lower slopes of the San Pedro Volcano. On top of this volcano, you ca...

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...