A BIG Announcement For a Special Kind of BIG YEAR – & A Trip to Colombia

Ross and I like to joke that we could never permanently live in South Florida simply because it would be too dangerous for us —

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A Trip Planned with 24hrs Notice! – & An update!

When I left for work last Thursday night, the plan for the upcoming weekend was to spend time birding around the Florida Keys, first going

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The Day We Almost Were Robbed

Ross is notoriously paranoid (or at least i think he is, he’d disagree). Sometimes his overprotective and extremely cautious methods can be annoying, but he’s

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The Most Range Restricted of All!

We called it “express birding” as we recorded a number of eBird checklists of birds of marshes while driving by them. A Brown Pelican here,

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Time Birding is Not Time Lost

Much of this blog is written in real time, even if there’s a significant delay in uploading to our website. I like to take notes

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Change Of Plans! Are We Crazy?!

This road, with steep walls of green forest on either side, is a well-known birding location boasting 291 species for the eBird Hotspot list (the

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Time To Pull Out All The Stops – Mexico

For as much birding as Ross and I have done, we’ve gone on very few pelagics together, all of which have been self-coordinated with locals

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Wait, It Was His First?!?!

Blue-capped Hummingbird holds a very special distinction. Blue-capped Hummingbird was the very first bird that Ross learned about that is known as a “range-restricted endemic.”

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An Auspicious Beginning – Southern Mexico

It is hot and dry in southern Mexico, and a lovely place to visit if you love tacos, blue skies, and speed bumps, which are

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Thoughts from Guatemala

I think any time one visits a new place, they leave as a new, likely improved, version of themselves. At the very least changed in

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