I’m at a yearly disadvantage when it comes to deciding my Best Bird of the Year (BBOY) here on 10,000 Birds. This is because...

When J. Latham first described Grey Butcherbirds in 1801, like most people of the age he assumed Australia’s birds should be seen in the context...

I’m in Sydney for a week of family, birding, diving and enjoying the subtropical climate. Okay, it may not be that hot, but it...

Well, it’s official. Over a decade since I was last there, I am finally heading back to Africa late this year. Not forever mind,...

Yesterday i introduced you, gentle reader, to the lovely work done by the acclimatisation societies of New Zealand in making the already interesting biogeography...

New Zealand has a very odd biota these days. There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced...

When I was a small kid I lived in Southern California, and my parents used to take me to Disneyland, the Happiest Place on...

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome...