The broadbills are always a family* that birders visiting South East Asia want to see, and who could blame them? They usually take up...

2013 was a strange year for me, staring in the UK, ending in Borneo and spending large tracks of the year not really seeing...

One of the nice things about Christmas in New Zealand is that we get to experience it in the summer, when things are pretty...

My post last week where I defended game hunting as a conservation tool has, unaccountably, encountered a certain amount of push back. Who would...

Assuming you have a passing interest in wildlife, or at the least you know someone that does, and chances are in the last week...

South Island’s Westland District is perhaps New Zealand’s best kept secret, a staggeringly beautiful stretch of coastline jammed between the Southern Alps and the...

I’ve stated in the past that I thought that the Pukeko, or Purple Swamphen, is New Zealand’s most iconic bird after the kiwi. On...

Anyone that has read my posts before knows I love Kaikoura and the amazing people at Albatross Encounter. We recently had a long weekend...