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Guides for North America
Ecoregions of Alabama
No matter where you are in Alabama, you will be treated to fabulous bird watching. Although there are several distinct geophysical areas…
Florida Bird Watching
Birding Florida Florida is a unique place for birds and birding in the United States. Projecting as it does into the Gulf…
10 Highlight Birds in South Carolina
1. Wood stork Wood stork by Billie Dodd Large wading birds that stand nearly 40 inches tall. The…
Florida Birding by Season: Fall
Fall birds of Florida (September, October, November) During September the southward land bird migration reaches its peak, with inland sites seeing more…
Birding Northwest USA
Tall trees, crisp air, snow-capped mountains—few places in the Lower 48 States conjure such images of wilderness as the Northwest. Here you…
Tennessee Birding by Season: Winter
Old Man Winter comes to Tennessee with a vengeance some years bringing much colder temperatures and more precipitation than on average, but…
South Carolina Birding by Season: Summer
Summer Birds of South Carolina (June, July, August) While summer settles over the South Carolina landscape, the mountains provide a welcome relief…
Birds of Illinois: Summer
Summer Birds of Illinois (June, July, August) While the excitement of spring migration has passed, summer holds a more subtle form of…
Roots and Wings: Nebraska Offers More Than Plains and Cranes
The Surprises of Nebraska We slipped into Omaha behind a late-March snowstorm, drawn by the promise of sandhill cranes. Arriving from Oregon,…
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…
The Discovery That Led to the Creation of Jocotoco
In November 1997, an incredible finding ignited a conservation movement. Twenty years later, its founders retell their stories and motivations. The coronation…
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…
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…
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….
Birding Honduras: A Riot of Beauty, a Gift Bag of Birds and Mysterious Landscapes
Birding and Beyond I came here to bird watch, but it is the people who fascinate me. Coming here is a trip…
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…
Birding in the Galapagos Islands
Bird Watching in the Amazing Amazon Basin and Grand Galapagos Islands My bucket list is full of places my husband, Mike, and…
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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