As my parents live in Bonn in Germany, I have been birding a few times in some spots surrounding the city when visiting them...

A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey...

Last week, Peter Penning regaled us with tales of death-defying birding exploits. Almost being bitten by a Black Mamba? Geez, dude! But there is...

I recently found out that on this planet of ours there exist people, actual living, walking, breathing people, who claim that birds are robotic...

A lot of art created via AI is truly awful – see the example above. I used a free version of Hotpot – they...

John Whitehead (1860-1899) was a British explorer who once a year starting in 1885 tried to climb Mount Kinabalu and finally succeeded in 1888,...

In his book Tales of a Tribe, author Mark Cocker describes an unfortunate event befalling a friend. One night while camping in the Himalayas,...

Memorable encounters with Mammals Part II It’s generally reckoned that there are more deer in Britain today than there were in the Middle Ages,...