Our two new blog post series are now one month old, with five posts published each. For our series on Birder’s Lists, we already...

Goodbye August, I won’t be sorry to see you go. Unless you happen to live near the coast, in which case there are plenty...

Spring in Ontario, Canada, is the time for colour and I love colourful things. The following  male birds dazzle, as they strut their stuff...

A pattern seems to be developing this summer, of birds with really striking faces. First there was the Lesser Ground-Cuckoo, a species I had...

It starts with a flight, then another, then another, then still, one more – to then realise that the island you’ve just landed on...

When writing about pittas, even the normally rather reserved HBW sounds more like to a teenage Taylor Swift fan than a neutral scientist: “Elusive...

Those of us who have lived long enough to see significant changes to bird populations will have personal recollections of this or that species....

Continuing our hike from the Karwendel (covered in my last post), my friends and I descended into the Isar river valley and hiked up...