birding michoacán

8 min read 2022-06-01 17:00:00

The Secrets of my Success

All right, I’ll admit it. I’m feeling pretty good about myself right now. I came back from a Monday birding trip and told my wife, prior to

4 min read 2022-05-25 23:00:00

Towhees are large, ground-hugging sparrows that occur only in North America. They belong to either the Pipilo or Melozone genera, or perhaps both, as

7 min read 2022-04-28 02:00:00

I bought my first plant for the garden, with my own money, when I was eight years old. I have no idea how I gathered enough money for the purchase,

5 min read 2022-04-20 17:00:00

I would not normally choose driving to two of my furthest regular sites back-to-back. But when April came around, and I had not yet gone to see the

5 min read 2022-04-13 17:00:00

Wood-Wrens, birds of the family Henicorhina, are very small wrens of Central and South America that like to live very close to the ground, in dense

4 min read 2022-03-30 17:00:00

So here are some numbers: As I write this, on March 24th, my 2022 list includes 239 species, all from within the state of Michoacán. The latest

4 min read 2022-03-30 17:00:00

So here are some numbers: As I write this, on March 24th, my 2022 list includes 239 species, all from within the state of Michoacán. The latest

3 min read 2022-03-16 17:00:00

If you’re on a highway and Road Runner goes beep beep.Just step aside or you might end up in a heap.Road Runner, Road Runner runs down the road all

6 min read 2022-03-02 18:00:00

Because there ain’t no cure for those springtime blues… You’ve probably heard of the winter blues, also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder.

5 min read 2022-02-23 18:00:00

So there I was, less than half an hour into my second formal outing for February, on the Ejido Triquillo (eh-HEE-do tree-KEE-yo) dirt road. I was

7 min read 2022-02-02 18:00:00

In my never-ending quest to expand my year list, Monday the 24th took me to the area of La Escalera/El Palmar/Arúmbaro. This is my best place to

6 min read 2022-01-26 18:00:00

Working man that I still am, I can not yet spend every day of January trying to build my new year list of species. So I pick each outing for maximum

4 min read 2022-01-19 18:00:00

One of the reasons that I usually start each year’s species list with a visit to the wetlands of Lake Cuitzeo is that the site offers so many

5 min read 2022-01-12 18:00:00

I can’t resist loving my first week of birding each year. While I can’t convince myself to be excited about my First-Of-Year House Sparrows,

6 min read 2022-01-05 18:00:00

Last week, Corey opened the “Top Ten Birds for 2021” season here at 10,000 Birds. He lamented that he had barely been able to travel during the