It is currently Pheasant Coucal breeding season. Despite the fact that they are part of the cuckoo family they do actually raise their own...

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to...

When I got back into birding about six years ago, I would not have predicted the personal bonds a birder can form with certain...

No time of year highlights the inadequacy of the calendar to describe seasons as much as this particular period in the upper latitudes of...

The Terminalia species of tree is well known for its medicinal benefits in the north of Australia. Terminalia ferdinandiana is the most well-known of...

Chongming Island is part of Shanghai – but it does not look much like the rest of the city. Located right where the Yangtze...

Getting familiar with birds is a process. As a child, poring through the pages of the Encyclopedia of Animal Life (I was gifted this...

I promised last week to reveal (this week) which Very Special Birds had allowed themselves to be seen on that week’s Monday outing. But...