Birding Shanghai has its own specific annoyances apart from birds not showing up. One is the continuing destruction of much of its environment. Any...

Curlews are birds of serious conservation concern in the UK, with numbers falling sharply this century. As usual, there are a number of reasons...

Back in 2016 one very unexpected bird appeared in the Mexican highlands: an American Flamingo. It took up residence for part of each year...

The millions of stars and galaxies twinkling over the Rupununi Savanna in Guyana seem to reluctantly fade into a gradually lightening sky as the...

The Common Green Magpie looks anything but common. (I swear I came up with this sentence myself but later saw that Australian Geographic has...

San Diego has a lot going for it. There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun...

For a while I was considering together with Jacob, whom I met on Helgoland during my month of volunteering at the bird observatory there,...

Just as the make and condition of a car tells you a lot about its owner, so a person’s binoculars tell you a lot...