Helm Field Guides, Paperback – May 2018 As we birders like to see ourselves, we aren’t tourists but travellers, even explorers. And hence we...

For sure, this is an odd sight, can you even imagine an agile swimmer such as cormorant drowning in the water? But let’s start...

It’s still dark at 5 am when the alarm on my mobile phone wakes me up in a spacious guest house room in Chikhaldara...

Now that the Mad Queen is dead, Brandon the Broken, First of His Name, is the King of the Andals and the First Men,...

In 1942, a shepherd from the Ural Mountains, Vasily Zaytsev, then a soldier in the Red Army, found himself on the front lines of...

I had no intention of making a questionnaire or analysing the results. I was just curious what the US birders dream about, so I...

Shorebirds (in Europe: waders) must be an acquired birding taste. No one starts birding dreaming of drab-coloured, unobtrusive and, far on a mud-bar, largely...

I picked up E. in the morning in front of her hotel. To avoid the traffic lights and rush hour, I drove through some...