There are scores of birds around the world that have robin in their name – Australia has no fewer...

Few birds are as confusingly named as the three species of wagtails we see regularly in Britain. The best-named...

I’m really a birdwatcher, not a bird photographer, though these days I usually carry a camera. I do so...

Made it with 30 days to spare: on 1 December I notched up my 200th species of the year...

I was first introduced to what is generally called house style many years ago, when I started work as...

Many years ago I was a motoring correspondent. It was much easier, and a lot more fun, to write...

Ten days without a glimpse of the sun is a depressing experience, but that’s what we experienced here in...

Last week I wrote about the birds that fly over my Suffolk garden (in eastern England), this time it’s...