You may know, or may have known and have forgotten by now, that Germany has had federal elections to the Bundestag this year, on...

The Chukar is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all the partridges that scientists assigned to the genus Alectoris. All these...

I am a birder, and I love birds. I don’t mind that they share the world with other creatures, and I have even developed an...

I am starting to feel my age. To be clear, in my early 40’s I really am not complaining. However, I feel the wind of...

I’ve just seen something that was a) exciting for the birder in me to watch and that b) completely stumped the zoologist in me:...

I fully realize that my last post was not a bird post in the strictest sense. As a matter of fact, one might surmise...

This may come as a surprise and it is sure to rock the stocks, yet it is an inevitable consequence of recent developments and a logic...

Purple Herons Ardea purpurea are an old world element of the Ardeidae and range widely throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and parts...