Birding North America

Spreading The Magic of Birding.

Spreading the birding gospel is necessary. A crowd of birders such on the photo is not a bad thing. Gunnar Engblom argues that there is a birder in all of us, and that festivals such as the Biggest Week of American Birding can convert the Muggles to find the magic of birding.

World Series of Birding Movie

I have arrived at Cape May after a lovely week at the Biggest Week of American Birding.  Many lifers, both birds and birders. Lifers were Greg Miller, Kenn and Kim […]

Featured Bird Photographer blogger ~She gets down and dirty

Mia McPherson is a nature lover, wildlife watcher and bird photographer. Birds fascinate, delight and intrigue her which is why she devotes many hours learning about them, observing their behavior and photographing them. By learning more about each subject, she can anticipate their behavior and create opportunities to obtain better images of those species. Mia enjoys sharing her photos, photographic skills and techniques with those individuals who are serious about their own bird and wildlife photography.

Sh*t birders say – for non birders

Viral birding . There have been pretty amazing few days lately checking out how Jason Kessler’s short 3 min video about birding talk has gotten 40,000 views as I write […]

James Currie ~On National Geographic WILD

Great news Via The American Birding Association Blog The National Geographic WILD TV network is debuting Aerial Assassins, hosted by James Currie on Friday, January 20, 2012. The new hour-long show […]

The Big Year interviews

Interviews with Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black on the make of The Big Year It is a bit comforting to know that in these interviews none of the […]

The future of birding

What is the future of birding. Are big days or big years really that interesting to people in general? Can birding really become main stream, and will listing be interesting enough for masses of people? Did you ever wonder why there are more hunters in the world than birders? Why are there more people interested in fishing than in birding? For all I know, there are probably even more stamp-collectors than birders.

Manitoba in June

  Well my apologies ;-( I  know I have been a rather illusive participant in ‘birdingblogs’ in recent weeks, in fact I feel my feet have barely touched the ground […]

Oregon in Spring Tour 2011

I’m in the middle of my seventh Oregon in Spring tour – 10 days of exciting birding from the coast to the mountains to the desert. But there just aren’t […]

Featured~Poet~Bird Blogger of the Month

Dawn Fine presents Kathie Brown of Kathie’s birds as this month’s birdblogger. Kathie is a fanatic ebirder, blogger and poet. She has build a good number of fans since she started blogging in 2004. A narrative flow, poetry and great photos makes it a very solid blog. One of the best.