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When Mike, Corey, and I were wandering around in the midst of the heaviest snow-storm to hit New York since - er, the last Ice Age probably, we went to Jones Beach on Long Island hoping to find Horned Larks and Snow Buntings. By the time we got there the sleet was coming down like […]

The Oriental (or Small) Skylark Alauda gulgula is clearly closely-related to the better-known and more widespread Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis (the well-loved songster of farmland and fields across the Palearctic). As it’s English name suggests gulgula is smaller than than arvensis - which can be difficult to assess on individuals in the field - but […]

Some days the milk of human kindness runneth over (etc etc), and I surprise even myself with my generosity. My arch-listing-rival Graham “the kitten botherer” Langley mailed to say that a mutual friend, Tommy Pedersen, a fellow birder who is a Captain with upmarket airline Emirates, was coming to the UK and really wanted to […]