For the last two decades, Europe and the greater Mediterranean have been covered by one of the best field guides anywhere: “Collins Bird Guide”...

Cover photo: Ram Fortress by Ilija Jacanovic In the chill morning of late January, I am driving east of Belgrade towards the Two Towers...

As Bill Oddie noticed in his foreword to ‘Wild Sri Lanka’ (2nd edition) by Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne, this island paradise is probably the...

The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely...

It’s the festive season and I am holding the new Lynx Edicions’s Birds of Japan, thinking what a perfect gift to any international birder...

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention:...

The Species per Square Mile Approach While Colombia may have almost 2000 bird species, it is a huge country with, still, complicated long-distance travel...

I have visited my local landfill for the last seven years, usually several times per winter, only to recently stumble upon a book called...