Yes, here it is, another attempt at keeping a year list. I started keeping year lists – not just blogging about them but really...

The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on business trips to Indonesia or...

You may have missed it. Birders tend to miss things outside the birding universe, what with being out and about in the woods and...

Birds wanting to make more birds often do crazy stuff, and birders are well accustomed to encountering splendid plumage features, impossible feather structures, crazy...

I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s...

The Common Moorhen still is in Germany what its name implies: common. Well, it is rather common and can even be scarce regionally, but...

There is no denying the fact that birders are a discriminating bunch. This seems to apply especially to birders in North American since most...

I recently saw and photographed what appears to be a Baikal Wagtail (Motacilla alba-or-not baicalensis) in Germany. If I am correct, this would apparently...