This post was originally published on February 09, 2019. It is republished in our new “From the Archives” series, by which we want to...

In Germany, the last wild living Ural Owl was shot in 1926, though there has been a reintroduction program in Bavaria that started in...

Birdwatching is all about timing. Sometimes you get it right, but sometimes you don’t. Last week my companion Andrew and I set off for...

I first remember being introduced to the field of island biogeography in a dark, empty lecture hall at Oregon State University in an advanced...

Most birders refer to some bird species as their nemesis. That is what we call a bird we probably should have seen already, but...

In the Pronojiwo area of East Java, there is an unassuming hide at the edge of a village. It hosts two species of kingfishers....

Sulawesi has two species of hornbills. Both are more or less endemic to Sulawesi (give or take a few islands nearby), and both are...

I’m sitting on the edge of the Doñana wetland in south-west Spain. The sea mists have driven into the coast but it’s mild. As...