Birdwatchers love making lists, with the year list one of the most important. In my younger days I always kept year lists: my best...

“Stop paddling. Quiet now!” Hissed our guide as the canoe rounded a bend in the blackwaters canal which connects the Rio Napo with the...

Like the recently posted entry on birding Kabul, this isn’t really much of a birding post – it features just two or three really...

Though it’s more than 50 years since my first bird photograph was published, I’ve always remained a birdwatcher who photographs birds, not a photographer...

I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change. Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic...

As mentioned in my previous post, we were hosted for an afternoon session at Jonathan‘s farm. Coming off a high from our morning boat...

Sunbirds are basically hummingbirds without any danger of Trumpism or MAGA ideology. And they think in meters and kilograms rather than in weird non-matching...

The pier in Ijmuiden, a coastal town west of Amsterdam, is a popular sea-watching site in the Netherlands as it allows one to get...