The bill of the Greater Flamingo is a marvel of nature that would make any baleen whale turn pale with envy. Indeed, they are...

If you are a birder reading this, you will probably like flamingos because they are pink. If you are a flamingo reading this, you...

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Germany was not a birding nation, at least not by international standards. In the good old...

To all but the greediest rice and spirulina farmers of Southeast Asia, any member of the genus Lonchura is a joy to watch. The munias, or...

Boy, do I have news for you. It has come to my attention recently, through the analysis of a chain of peculiar events, that...

The Fieldfare Turdus pilaris has a wide Eurasian breeding range that reaches from its western limit in central Europe north to the Arctic coast...

A search of more than 20 years. For a fleeting glimpse. Just to be fooled again. And again. Then… …on December 30th 2012, at...

Most readers of this blog will certainly appreciate an out-of-season tropical post at the beginning of January, a post based on what was almost...