Mountain Plovers are among the birds I most look forward to seeing each Arizona winter, when small, apparently nomadic flocks inhabit a few traditional areas of bare fields and pasture. Sometimes a bird’s beauty is enhanced by its rarity, but I firmly believe that this would be a bird to admire for hours on end [...]

My prediction Friday morning had been that my stake-out Burrowing Owls would be safely huddled in their warm caves, waiting out the coldest night of the season. I was wrong: at two of the sites we visited, birds were up and out, soaking up what warmth there was before retiring for a morning nap.

Graham spotted [...]

The long-staying Northern Jacana at the Dave White Golf Course in Casa Grande has been abundantly documented now with descriptions and photos; this is a very good thing, since for some reason all of my pictures have turned out to be even blurrier and more distant than I’d thought. I’ll have plenty of opportunity, deo [...]

The rivers of Guyana left this boy from the prairies, one who has ended up in the desert, with his mouth agape and his eyes disbelieving. Our boat travel along the Essequibo took us to several stretches where the river was 5 kilometers or more across, the opposite shore a green blur on the horizon; [...]

If you ask me, any place with jacamars is mighty close to paradise!