Bulgaria

Just back from nine great days in Guatemala, I’ll be giving a lecture tonight to Tucson Audubon Society about the birds of Bulgaria and the BSPB’s efforts to save them.

Join us at 7:00 this evening to see some photos, hear some stories, and learn something about what you can do–and what only the Bulgarians can […]

The announcement of my lecture on Bulgaria to the Tucson Audubon Society March 10 has appeared, and I hope that some of you can show up for it.
Meanwhile, I’m busy, busy getting myself ready for the keynote speech this weekend at Wings over Willcox, and looking forward to birding with many old friends and new! […]

Just what is the relationship between birding and bird photography? I know people who won’t ‘count’ a bird unless they’ve got a good image of it, and I know, alas, many people who leave the identifying of their photos to the sometimes dubious expertise offered by one or another of the internet “forums.”
I’ve ranted before about […]

For a while in the 1980s, birders were playing a new and slightly perverse listing game: the Christmas Card Bird Count. If rightly I remember, Birding even published a few of the more impressive tallies. What struck me most at the time was how few Nearctic species made those lists. Once you’d ticked Northern Cardinal, Cedar […]

I managed a walk to Sofia’s Boris Park both of the days I was in the city, and while the birding was only so-so, I did enjoy the chance to get a feel for the town.
Architecturally, much of it is about what one might expect for an eastern European capital; but there are jewels scattered […]