Right. I did not actually go to Afghanistan for birding. I had another reason for that, trying to support a local NGO and its...

Would you know a Firewood Gatherer if it landed in front of your binoculars? Or, come to that, a Greater Thornbird or a Buff-bellied...

Our first full day in the Land of Many Waters predictably began with a trip on one of these many waters. After leaving our...

What a bountiful year it’s been for birding books! We’ve gotten them all—field guides to foreign countries; memoirs and big year books; narratives about...

This November, I went birding in Shanghai exactly once – the result of both some unpleasant changes in the accessibility of some good birding...

The Dutch Island of Texel is well-known amongst European birders due to the exciting number and quality of birds it attracts during spring and...

As a general rule, birders don’t like hybrids. For a start, they may struggle to identify them, while secondly they can’t even tick them....

The Bornean Bristlehead is kind of the star bird of Sepilok. eBird calls it “a ‘grail bird’ of many birders visiting Borneo. Ironically, while...