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Bird Names: The Philadelphia Connection – Part 2

Charles Lucien Bonapatre was Napoleon’s nephew. He was a French naturalist who…

A Western Vagrant in NJ

It has been 14 years since a Green-tailed Towhee has shown up…

ONTARIO – Part 4: Ottawa Owls

The Northern Hawk Owl is the only species in its genera, Surnia….

ONTARIO – Part 3: Algonquin

Birding when the thermometer reads a frigid zero degrees may seem a…

GUYANA – Part 5: Night Watch

As the sun sets in the Amazon Basin, a whole new set…

ONTARIO – Part 2: The Big Three

We were back on Amherst Island shortly after dawn watching a male…

Birds and Friends

I recently received this photo of a juvenile Green Woodpecker from an…

ONTARIO – Part 1: Amherst Island

I am in Eastern Ontario on a 4 day trip having driven…

Owling on Christmas Bird Counts

Christmas Bird Counts are an excellent time to look and listen for…

GUYANA – Part 4: Land of the Giants

Guyana is a place of giants and of the ever so tiny….

Trail Safety

No matter where in the world we are hiking there are dangers…

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY CHANUKKAH

Puerto Rican Tody © Kevin Loughlin

GUYANA – Part 3: Kaieteur Falls

Over an hour of flying and not a break in the forest….

James Bond. Spy or Birder?

“Bond. James Bond”, three words that have a storied history in cinematic…

Savor the precious moments

Every moment outside is precious. When I am not traveling, however, I…

Jesters of the Jetties

While not leading trips out of the country, I enjoy visiting the…

Kids ask the best questions!

I offer a lot of presentations to birding clubs, camera clubs and…

Bald Eagles and Paparazzi

In the 1960’s our national bird, the Bald Eagle, was in peril…

GUYANA – Part 2: Attention City Birders

This Red-shouldered Macaw was a life bird. This was but one of…

Guyana – Part 1: A new birding frontier!

Guyana was hot and oppressively humid… and worth every single bead of…

Floreana Mockingbird – the rarest of the 4 Galapagos mockingbirds!

I’m slowly trying to catch up on photo editing from the past…

Tropical Kingbird in Maine!

There’s nothing better to pull a birder out of the mid-summer doldrums…

A Year of Birding with Gabriel Lugo!

My name is Gabriel Lugo, and for nearly 15 years, I’ve had…

SPRING 2024 BIRDING TRIP REPORTS

Our birding tours have been running at full speed this spring! Catch…

Tropical Kingbird in Cape May!

Tropical Kingbird has an infamous aversion to New Jersey, but finally Cape…

ZIMBABWE PHOTO SAFARI

If you’ve ever dreamed of photographing big cats, elephants, and birds on…

Aerial Display

Leaping from the top of a tall column. Soaring straight up into…

Backyard Bounty

June brings a bustle of avian activity to my suburban Philadelphia backyard….

Ocean City Summer Spectacle

Ocean City New Jersey is a favorite summer destination for surf, sand,…

“Kamchatka” Common Gull in Connecticut!

Patrick Dugan discovered a stunning adult “Kamchatka” Common Gull on February 10th…