As we all know, birdwatchers love making lists. Here in the UK patch-listing is popular. A patch is usually...

October is one of the best months for birds in Britain, so why, with three weeks of the month...

I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated...

You know things are getting desperate when you get excited by an unexpected flock of Starlings. Here I was,...

While The Observer’s Book of Birds was an inspirational little book for me as a small child, it didn’t...

As a small child I was fascinated by animals, but it was when a pair of Blackbirds nested close...

I’m sitting writing this in my study, its walls lined with books on birds and natural history. However, a...

Most of us have bogey birds – certain species that for one reason or another elude us for years....