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Guides for North America
Seven Activities for Birders Visiting Marble Falls, Texas
Texas’ iconic bluebonnets A press tour in late March of 2019 afforded me the opportunity to explore Marble Falls and the…
Florida Birding by Season: Summer
Summer Birds of Florida (June, July, August) By the end of May and into June most Florida bird species are nesting, and…
Go West! Explore the Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway
There is a place in America virtually untouched by the hand of man. It is Nebraska’s last unexplored frontier; a timeless, windblown…
Texas Bird Watching
Birding Texas The second-largest U.S. state boasts a whopping 639 bird species, and perhaps the hottest birding hot spot in North America:…
Ohio Birding by Season: Winter
Winter Birds of Ohio (December, January, February) While this season is not the most popular among many outdoor enthusiasts because of the…
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
With a herd of cows and half-dozen Mexican vaqueros, Peter French arrived in southeast Oregon in 1872 on building a cattle empire….
Arkansas Bird Watching
In 2005, Arkansas made international headlines over a bird: The ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct for several decades, was allegedly seen…
Michigan Bird Watching
Birding Michigan “If you seek a beautiful peninsula, look about you,” is Michigan’s motto. Consisting of two peninsulas surrounded by the largest…
Kentucky Birding by Season: Winter
Winter birds of Kentucky (December, January, February) By early December, most of our winter songbirds have arrived, but waterbirds continue to pass…
International Guides
Trinidad & Tobago
Introduction to the Neotropics—a Winter Trip to Trinidad and Tobago Introduction Wake up to the calls of barred antshrikes, ferruginous pygmy-owls, blue-crowned…
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,…
Budget Birding in Panama
Far Afield: Panama “I wish I had a tape recorder,” my husband remarked as we climbed the spiral walkway of the observation…
Birding in Argentina
Argentina Travel Links In episode #46 of This Birding Life, Bird Watcher’s Digest editor Bill Thompson, III, interviews birders who took part…
Introduction to the Neotropics—a Winter Trip to Trinidad and Tobago
Introduction Wake up to the calls of barred antshrikes, ferruginous pygmy-owls, blue-crowned motmots. Step out onto the porch of your cabin and…
Guyana: Journey to the Lungs of the Earth
It is a dreadful task to try to condense more than 25,000 words of my writings on Guyana into a 2,000-word article….
Travel Right, Bird More
The Travel Mindset Tikal, Guatemala: Travel in the late 1980s was a different experience than the beaten path that exists now. Jolting…
International Birding
About 1,000 bird species reside or have been documented in North America, but there are roughly 10,000 bird species in the world!…
Birding Magic: Ecuador
It’s peaceful here but really loud: birds calling all around, a russet-crowned warbler here, a slaty antwren there, and the creeks running…
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