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I’m lucky enough to spend a great deal of time flying around the world finding unusual birds, but every so often I get lucky enough to find that something unusual has flown round the world to me. At about 15:30 an email popped up to say that a Franklin’s Gull had been found on [...]

Jory Langner is an Albany-area birder whose musings during his New York State Big Year last year were presented here. His birding adventures across the state garnered him an impressive list of 310 species, including Audubon’s Shearwater and Grey-cheeked Thrush, which the other three Albany-area big year birders failed to find. Not only [...]

Standby time again and after three days of staring out of a hotel window onto a wet car park - and seeing no birds - while I waited for the airline’s scheduling team to give me a ring (it’s very glamorous sometimes this airline job of mine) I finally got a call: a ‘night-stop’ [...]