I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. I pushed for Wikipedia to adopt them, and...

Birders are fairly easy to spot. Many wear awful clothes, variations of beige and khaki with legs that can be zipped off to make...

Mainland island sanctuaries are popular in New Zealand for any number of reasons. On an island where a major cause of biodiversity loss is...

Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia is one of the premier marine wildlife destinations in the world. The long reef is home to an annual...

Shark Bay is one of the most famous tourist destinations in West Australia, and until recently was therefore not a place I was particularly...

I’ve spent a lot of my life in Australia, not as much as I would like, but plenty. The nation and continent is vast...

This is a bird blog, and my beat is New Zealand, so let me talk about a fish I saw in Australia. My recent...

I’m on a family trip to Australia at the moment. It’s not a dedicated birding trip, but I’m picking up a few good ones....