If studying insects would lead you to suppose that God had an “an inordinate fondness for beetles”, studying the pre-human avifauna of the Pacific...

Seeing one of the world’s rarest birds is not something you’d usually think an easy task. Species with a world population in the hundreds...

As entertaining as it has been reading about the lovely spring migrations in North America recently, it might be worth remembering the fate of...

My first exposure to the beautiful birds known as wood-warblers was on a small group of islands on the edge of the world (almost)....

Although the only pine forests found in New Zealand are recent plantations of Northern Hemisphere Pinus species like the Monterey pine, the country does...

Last week I introduced the Great Frigatebird, one of five species of man-o-war bird. I got rather carried away showing all the plumages you...

I’ve always thought there is something prehistoric about frigatebirds, as something about their shape evokes in my mind the shape I imagine the later...

Last Sunday marked the end of an era in New Zealand with the sad passing of the conservationist and ornithologist and all round inspiration...