Mar 02 2009
Take a look at the landscape below. What can you tell me about the environment depicted? It’s a desert, or at least a dry habitat, right? The plain in the foreground, anyhow–who knows what the climate is like in the mountains? But the tall, spiky yucca plants at front right tell you, just as [...]
Feb 16 2009
I’ve just begun a leading a tour to South Texas and Northeast Mexico with a group from the Delaware Nature Society. Today, we birded the eastern edge of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, covering Brownsville, South Padre Island, and Laguna Atascosa. We saw lots of nice birds, but I especially enjoyed our encounters with two [...]
Dec 23 2008
This is my last post in a series of four on the endemic birds of Northeast Mexico. That doesn’t mean I’ve run through the entire list of species, not hardly. But I hope I’ve given you a taste of some of what makes the area unique. I’m ending on a chromatically appropriate note with Red-crowned [...]
Nov 07 2008
I’m back from Mexico (as of Tuesday, so I got to watch the election returns!) and leading field trips at the 15th annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival. I’ve got some stories and photos from both sides of the border I’m anxious to share, plus I still want to wrap up the Panama press trip [...]
