I was laid out with a bad back last week, which didn’t really affect my birding as I wasn’t planning any at the time....

It is important when writing for respectable media sources, such as this site, not to jump to conclusions or resort to resort to stereotypes,...

After my post about collecting two weeks ago I received a bit of feedback, some positive, some negative, and I’ve been mulling it over...

I’ve not made spectacular progress writing up my trip to Africa earlier this year, so perhaps I should get on that. I do have...

A few weeks ago a colleague of mine at work expressed delight as he looked over my shoulder at work and saw a large...

Starlings have a bad rap. This is perhaps almost entirely due to the Common Starling, a species that is, over much of its range,...

One of my favourite Monty Python sketches involves a rather enthusiastic documentary into the sordid sex lives of the mollusks. Without ever meaning to...

All the way back in 2011 I wrote about the confusing taxanomic enigma that is the Collared Kingfisher, a species that ranges from the...