The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. This is not an insignificant fact...

Last month when we were away from home camping in the Kimberley region to the north of Broome we pulled up at a dam...

October tends to be a rather windy month in many parts of the world. Keep your eyes to the skies… you never know what...

A few weeks ago a colleague of mine at work expressed delight as he looked over my shoulder at work and saw a large...

You know a bird is beautiful when Robert Tory Peterson describes it as a “sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” New Hampshire must have thought...

A beautiful weekend for watching birds demands beautiful people watching birds. Were you out there? I enjoyed a nice selection of sparrows and raptors...

Over recent months we have observed larger than normal numbers of Black-breasted Buzzards, so we can assume that they have had some successful breeding...

Earlier this year, Duncan wrote a charming piece about Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa. I already buy into the value of such...