“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof” Carl Sagan   The ABA checklist committee has recently added the Egyptian Goose to the official ABA checklist, based...

It’s bad. Very bad. Germany is currently experiencing its hottest June and July ever, and temperatures in the last few weeks have rarely been...

Great Egrets Ardea alba are confusing on many levels. The first level is the most harmless of them all since it only pertains to...

Germany is currently experiencing something for which the English have no nice expression. We call it a “mouse gradation year”. I was not able...

Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. This ridiculous focus of the Birding Internet on North American wood-warblers is boring on a...

Stop and stay, don’t move that mouse. I still know my audience – this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who...

We are bound to suffer. Yes, winter has done it again: here in Heidelberg, we are subjected to the painful games of Mr. Grey, trapped under...

David recently published a post on your favourite bird blog about the taxonomy of the Purple Swamphen, a massive rail found throughout most of...