There is no excuse for putting a banner photo like this on a renowned birding site. It’s just that when summer is over and...

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. The species that manage to colonize these islands...

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each offers a portrait of a...

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an...

If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on...

Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands....

It stood like a sentinel at the entrance, lonely, waiting. I was running late, and yet I slowed the car down, to catch as much...

September sharpens one’s priorities, in that every weekend offers so much to do that only the most attractive or important options make the cut....