It is often useful to look at satellite images on Google Earth to see where there is suitable habitat for different bird species. Sometimes...

The 2020 Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Do birders and canoeists/kayakists/kayakers/kakies make good bedfellows I wonder? The new canoeing centre is still...

Check your calendar. If the month reads May, don’t worry about making weekend plans. You’re already booked… to go birding. Just be sure to...

Apologies for the unintended three-weak break here at Birds and Booze. I was on vacation in Peru for nine days and meant to schedule...

We hope that all the mothers–and everyone who has mothers–enjoyed an absolutely delightful Mother’s Day this weekend, whether that holiday is observed in your...

During our three weeks of birding in Singapore we spent many hours on forest trails. We had hoped that during our visit we may...

The month of May gives no quarter to passionate birders. You probably spent all of last weekend engaged in an extended Global Big Day,...

In 1942, a shepherd from the Ural Mountains, Vasily Zaytsev, then a soldier in the Red Army, found himself on the front lines of...