International Travel

Waychinicup Inlet, Australia

Birding Australia: Spring in the Land Down Under

Introduction For an American, birding in Western Australia (WA) requires some mental gymnastics. Spring in “the land down under” occurs during North America’s fall. Although the sun rises in the east, it travels across the northern sky. Exactly half a world away, when it’s midday in North Carolina, it’s midnight in Perth. And though ticks […]

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Crested caracara in Panama.

Birding Panama: Canopy Tower and Canopy Lodge

Canopy Tower At Canopy Tower, just a 30-minute drive from bustling downtown Panama City, you’re apt to be awakened by howler monkeys. Before the sun is even up, small feeding flocks begin foraging in the treetops. A short while later, you can watch honeycreepers search for fruit and nectar and hawks glide by while enjoying

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Magnificent frigatebird in the Galapagos.

Bird Watching in the Amazing Amazon Basin and Grand Galapagos Islands

My bucket list is full of places my husband, Mike, and I want to visit. We know we’ll never complete the list, because we are forever adding to it, but we are happy to have checked off the Arctic and Antarctic, and more recently the Amazon Rainforest and the Galapagos Islands. I’ve visited Antarctica, my

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