On a recent trip to Salt Lake City, I took a short birding trip in City Creek Canyon , a location that comes up often on the Utah birding li...

Slender Salamanders, or Worm Salamanders, are a genus ( Batrachoseps ) of small, thin salamanders that are found only on the west coast of N...

On my recent trip to California , I was really hoping to be able to take a pelagic bird-watching trip. June is the best time of the year to...

I just returned a week ago from a trip to California. The main purpose of the trip was for scuba diving, but I took some time to hunt down a...

Two years ago, my friend Craig and I had a friendly competition to see who could see the most species in the county. Lately, our competit...

It seems that the gallinaceous birds always make you work for it. You might have already read here about my trek to find Himalayan Snowcock...

The holidays are the perfect time to visit old friends. At the end of December I was able to return to Seattle, where I grew up, to visit my...

Last weekend I joined 11 friends in Wendover for a night of gambling to celebrate my friend Ian's birthday. While I was there, I thought...

It's been a long time since my last post, and I can't promise that future updates will be any more regular. The field work is going ...

Southeast Nebraska was much easier than I thought. It took a few false starts at areas that apparently only have Plains Leopard Frogs, but a...