Of all the dangerous sports birders risk their necks in in the pursuit of birds, birding while driving is perhaps the most common threat...

I’ve got two longer more wordy posts in a half finished condition this week, so rather than rush them out unfinished I’m afraid it’s...

The IOC World Bird list proposed a number of unconventional bird names, most notably the Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer) and the Roughleg (Buteo...

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be...

It’s a plover, and it lives on the shore. What more do you need to know? Actually, there is a great deal more that...

It was only just a few days ago that I was poking fun of twitchers in Alan’s post about White-throated Robins and such. The...

There is a very distinctive smell found on seabird colonies, where thousands upon thousands of birds come to breed and, coincidentally, deposit large quantities...

I mentioned last week, while talking about rails and the Pacific, that Tonga is not a particularly birdy birding destination. A combination of extinctions...