Being a birder in Shanghai can be depressing. Whenever I visit a location I have not been to for a few weeks or months,...

For many years now, I have had a scheduled meeting with some old friends. I drive to an area an hour away from me...

Reactions to my Big Year in Rotterdam have been threefold: [1] your target is ambitious but doable, [2] your target is too high, and...

This post was originally published on December 07, 2019. It is republished in our new “From the Archives” series, by which we want to...

This morning I heard my first Cetti’s Warbler of 2025, a welcome sign of the changing year. Cetti’s Warblers do sing during the winter,...

International birding usually requires passing through an airport or two, interrupted by several hours of birdless flying – the worst version of flying possible....

I’m sure (hoping) that at least one person noticed my missing post this month – I was on a blitz of the Lesser Antilles,...

By Itamar Procaccia, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel Itamar Procaccia is a professor at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, specializing...