The Australian butcherbirds are a genus (Cracticus) of striking and aggressive passerine predators, so it is hardly surprising that when they were first discovered they were...

Birding blog trip reports usually are rousing stories of success against incredible odds, or at the very least spectacular failures that make the reader laugh. The...

With the release of the widely anticipated Avengers film this week and the latest Batman film set to hit later this year, I thought it might...

There are plenty of famous courtship performances in the bird world; those of the lyrebirds, the birds-of-paradise, the manakins. It would be hard to...

To the north of both Cairns and the Atherton Tableland is the Daintree River, which gives the area and the small town its name....

There cannot be many ABA area breeding birds harder to get than those that only breed on the remotest tips of the north of...

I’ve just started a new job which has sucked out all of my time, so I was running late trying to dream up a...

If you’ve read my posts before you’d know I’ve written at length about the devastating effects of introduced mammals in New Zealand, and also...