The North Shore of Sydney is, as I’ve often observed, a great place to watch birds. On my last visit, which lastes four days,...

I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct...

In his comment in last week’s post on the Marlborough Sounds, Beat writer Jochen described the New Zealand Fantail as one of the best...

After all the excitement (such as it was) of last week it was nice to have an escape route from the city already lined...

Two years ago I wrote about the earthquake that struck Christchurch, killing many people and wrecking on of New Zealand’s biggest cites. Two years...

Sometimes the birds we see take a lot of work. I wouldn’t know about that myself, as I am a legendarily good birder who...

Does birding make you happy? It seems like an odd question; I mean, if it didn’t, why would you do it? There are certainly...

There’s often a trick to getting a location; you can’t just go to a location and low and behold…. birds! With large parks it’s...