Presuming that you want to bird Costa Rica, you would book a southbound flight (from N. America) or westbound...

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

For sure, this is an odd sight, can you even imagine an agile swimmer such as cormorant drowning in...

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

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

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

I had no intention of making a questionnaire or analysing the results. I was just curious what the US...

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