Hongbenghe, a small village right at the border of China’s Yunnan province and Myanmar, has a number of woodpeckers. And most birders (though not...

The vast majority of Palaearctic birds have now finished breeding and are either heading south, dispersing locally or going into moult. Many of the...

There’s nothing like an unexpected bird to get the pulse racing, as I was reminded on a recent warm and sunny summer’s evening. I...

Oxford Languages defines a bluenose as a “priggish or puritanical” person. Oddly enough, it can also refer to a person from Nova Scotia. I...

I hope you did not expect any list of favorites from me – liking things is not really my core competence. So, here is...

Di Linh is a town and district in South Vietnam a bit less than 2 hours southwest of Dalat. It is the kind of...

What one thing do parents of younger children always need?  Bedtime books.  The best ones are interesting but soothing, familiar yet new. They are books that...

An Economist article published in February 2024 describes the rise of cuteness (“Small, but mighty: how cuteness has taken over the world“). It specifically...