Slow Birding (Joan E. Strassmann)
Reading Time: 3 minutesSlow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard by Joan E. Strassmann encourages a different approach to birding. It challenges the...
Snow Geese, Orange Discoloration, and their Arctic Habitat
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently, as I have been visiting my local birding hotspots I wanted to be more intentional about not solely counting what species I was seeing but stopping...
Sibley’s Birding Basics (David Allen Sibley)
Reading Time: 2 minutesSibley’s Birding Basics is not a guidebook similar to The Sibley Guide to Birds but rather an introduction to Birding meant for beginners (and intermediates alike). This...
Seabirds of the World (Hosking & Lockley)
Reading Time: 3 minutesSeabirds of the World by Eric Hosking (Photography) and Ronald M Lockley (Text) was published in 1982 and celebrated its 40th birthday this year. Eric Hosking was...
Book Reviews
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have always loved collecting and accumulating books over the years, particularly books that I can find at thrift stores. When I started birding that love of...
Struggles With Shorebirds: Intro
Reading Time: 5 minutesI am sure this will be a multiple-part post about shorebirds and their incredibly hard-to-decipher field marks. I don’t know if the difficulty of identifying certain species...
Hot Limpkin Winter 2023 & Chasing Rarities
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s Hot Limpkin Summer Winter in New Jersey! During the Summer of 2022, Limpkins erupted from South Florida and the Neotropics to become the first records in...
My First (Almost) Two Years Birding
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo I have been birding for almost two years now. I came into this hobby with a love of birds and nature but with very little intimate...
- Hyper-specific Birding
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFirst, I would like to describe exactly what I mean when I... - Reserva Natural El Dorado
Reading Time: 7 minutesDuring my trip to Colombia in February of this year, I had... - A Day of Chasing Rarities
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s (almost) always a good time when you can spend the day... - My Top 10 Birds of Colombia: 1-5
Reading Time: 7 minutesNumbers 6-10 can be found here! 5. Sword-billed Hummingbird The Sword-billed Hummingbird... - My Top 10 Birds of Colombia: 6-10Reading Time: 6 minutesIn February of this year, I took a month-long trip to Colombia,...