The word “endemic” has always seemed rather vague to me. Oxford Languages offers this definition: 2. (of a plant or animal) native and restricted...

Ardent readers of this blog would realise by now that I have been chronicling a few days spent in Guyana last year – I...

The Varied Tit is a rare species in Shanghai – this was the first time I ever saw one, even though it is relatively...

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a...

Memorable encounters with Mammals: Part I Most birdwatchers enjoy seeing mammals, but the trouble with mammals is that they tend to be much more...

Last week, David Tomlinson wrote about the excitement of that first birding outing for the year, when every bird is new again. One always...

“Birds and insects, as might have been expected, are very few in number; indeed I believe all the birds have been introduced within late...

I promise that this is the third and last in a series of posts covering a recent trip to Afghanistan. As the previous two...