Vagrant Pursuit

Alright guys, you got me. I made a mistake on my last blogpost. When I described finding some brushfinches in the mountains outside Mexico ...

The first thing to understand about Mexico City is that we Americans do not belong there. This may come as a shock to some, especially as th...

One of the major challenges of studying evolution is that animals tend to evolve over time periods that extend far beyond the lifetimes of t...

Two weeks ago I observed something quite unusual during a Snail Kite survey. I was tasked with meeting the project's Kissimmee area crew...

I am currently working as the field crew lead of the University of Florida’s Snail Kite monitoring project, which comes with several perks. ...

Those of us who aren’t so well-versed in speciation research--or perhaps even biologists from a few decades ago who were in their day but ar...

Every once in a while a phenomenon in birding transcends its niche and achieves its highest possible level of notoriety: your non-birder rel...