When birding, as in life in general, it is important to stop occasionally and smell the metaphorical roses. This isn’t just because roses smell...

I’m a biogeography buff, and I’m seriously disappointed when I get a guide book that doesn’t have maps in. One of the interesting things...

I love spotlighting, and I hate spotlighting. In fact, it’s hard to think of a wildlife watching activity I’m more conflicted about, other than...

Mt Kinabalu is the one of destinations that birders visiting Borneo shouldn’t miss. It may not be the easiest place to bird (although it...

Tambunan was the bookend to my trip to Borneo, it was the first destination I birded and the last. As must see birding destinations...

When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at...

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and...

Those of you that pay attention may have noticed that I haven’t been posting my rambling and incoherent thoughts much lately. In fact, I...