North America Posts

Field guides covering North America, in this context, include Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48 of the United States. It does not include Hawaii, Greenland.........

Woodpeckers are among the world’s most charismatic birds. And the United States certainly has more than its fair share of spectacular-looking ones, with an am...

It’s mid-May, and my fourteenth year teaching organic chemistry just ended. It was quite the unusual semester since the COVID-19 pandemic forced all college ....

What is your choice of the top 10 birds in the USA? And what is your top birding experience in the USA? Here are the lists from a few of the Birding Ecotours te...

I’m a new birder in Ohio, having lived here for less than two and a half years. I came to Columbus from South Africa to open the new American office of Birdin...

Birding has truly become a great international hobby that seems to be growing and growing. It is very exciting to see so many young folk (here in South Africa a...

Twelve miles off the coast of central Maine lies Monhegan Island. Monahigan, as it was originally known, means ‘Island of the Sea’. This spectacular little ...

This May I again had the wonderful opportunity to represent Birding Ecotours at The Biggest Week in American Birding (BWIAB). The BWIAB is a 10-day long event ....

May is known as the best month for birding in the eastern part of the United States, and in particular for the spectacular spring migration that occurs during t...