Although by this time we had already clocked around a hundred species after a day and a half in Guyana, we were understandably eager...

Sometimes marketing people wake up sweating, mostly after having nightmares about outdated logos and designs. While I am not a marketing person myself, even...

If – like me – at some point in your life you have decided that washing white and colorful clothes is not really worth...

I was very glad to be able to spend the week of Christmas and the new year at the Tegernsee, a small lake in...

As I mentioned last week, the world seems to have turned upside down lately, at least here in central Mexico. After a devastatingly dry...

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...