I hope you will forgive my rather lurid title. No, I am not going to tell you about some blood-sucking bird with hypnotic powers....

David Sibley’s sketch of an Atlantic Puffin. I sat down at my dining room table, its wooden surface covered by a wrinkled white tablecloth...

I can’t recall a year when birders were as thrilled to see the month of May pass as we all are in 2020. I...

Two weeks ago I mentioned that we rarely got rain at this time of year. However, sometimes it does rain and on 26th May...

It has often been said that a murmuration of starlings is one of the most spectacular sights in nature. When a huge flock of...

Don`t worry – after having written about birding Shanghai in April a few weeks ago, I will not continue this theme for longer –...

There aren’t many places on the planet where one can mention the words ‘forest’ and ‘flamingo’ together. Far less experience the two in a...

Because of our age, Mexico’s rising COVID-19 numbers, and my wife’s anxiety about infectious diseases in general, we have been in total lockdown at...