While I often tease Corey about how many albatrosses we have down here in New Zealand, the fact is that the United States has...

I often poke fun at listers I perceive as being more interested in ticks than birds. (Listing ticks I mean, I have yet to meet a...

As introductions to tropical Pacific birding go, you could do a lot worse than Fiji. Their combination of isolation and size makes them a...

Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again to one of my...

One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...

Just a quick one this week as life is crazy and rattles relentlessly onwards. Since everyone loves parrots, I thought I’d  post some pictures of one...

Were one to draw up one of those lists of “top ten x to see before you die”, a formula that is perhaps a...

It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things. By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example...