You’d be hard pressed to find a 19th century scientist more despised than Richard Owen. For all his qualities as an anatomist (at a...

That’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself. There’s a decent chance you’ve never even heard of it before. I hadn’t until a little...

The Sanetti Plateau in Ethiopia is a one of Africa’s greatest birding locations. High above the great Rift Valley, endless treeless plains stretch out...

While much of the attention that Africa’s tourism industry gets is for its (deservedly) popular national parks and game reserves, a lot of wildlife...

In late August and early September the sensational West Coast National Park, north of Cape Town, is high on the list of visiting tourists....

Well, that year was something else. Like a lot of people I know, the body blows of the news the world at large were...

Regular readers to the blog may have noticed Redgannet’s post on some delightful finchbills he saw in China. In the post he agonised about...

I love bustards. They are attractive regal looking birds that scream African savannah to me, even if the first I ever saw was in...