You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the...

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....