The murmuration of blackbirds stretched out for more than a kilometre. The birds’ joint movement looked like a long ribbon fluttering and twisting in...

There are so many wonderful places to go birding in California. You have the sea, the mountains, desert habitats, islands, forests – it seems...

It is hard not to be sexist when you only see a female Fire-breasted Flowerpecker. eBird rubs it in, talking about the “brilliantly red...

The days are getting noticeably longer now. The sun sets after 630pm and the Upper Rock Nature Reserve is looking lush and green, thanks...

So, a Big Year in Rotterdam… which birds will we be able to see? As the city has the largest port in the world...

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...