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Happy Christmas to all the readers and writers on the good ship 10000 Birds. Having survived the Triumvirate’s cat o’ nine tails thrashing during the kidnapping, I am now bent to their every whim and committed to their vision of traffic at any price. My alter alias, International Man of Mystery has failed to live [...]

South African ex-pat Mike Pope is Chair of the Kuwait Ornitholigical Records Committee (KORC), runs the excellent Birding Kuwait website, is a superb photographer (genuinely, his photos are as good as most of those published by professionals – see below – and are posted on his website at 800px wide so every detail is there [...]

A great journal does not necessarily make a great book. This simple truth, one that countless bloggers will inevitably, obstinately transgress, has already been proven time and time again in literary history. The reason publishers keep trying to transition personal records to paperbacks, besides the fact that the content is already written, is probably that [...]