Last year 10,000 Birds celebrated Wood Warbler Week, which gave me an opportunity to describe exactly what a Wood Warbler (aka Phylloscopus sibilatrix) really...

Rik Davis was a legend. And he touched and inspired more people than many of us will ever meet. I did not know Rik...

so, while everyone else in the world was hanging out with the Kirtland’s Warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii) on the beach at Magee Marsh last week,...

The Biggest Week in American Birding – on the shores of lake Erie, Ohio – is going really nicely. Sure, this is my first...

The Great Bustard (Otis tarda) is one of the largest flying birds on the planet, topped only by the Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) and,...

Yesterday was a public holiday in Austria and we had decided to take a drive out to Lake Constance / Bodensee to see what...

I am on a quick trip to the Lisbon area in Portugal and – I must admit – I was taken completely by surprise...

I don’t know what it is, but since I bought Dick Forsman‘s “The Raptors of Europe and Middle East” my interest in buzzards has...