There are plenty of famous courtship performances in the bird world; those of the lyrebirds, the birds-of-paradise, the manakins. It would be hard to...

Here is my contribution to Bird Love Week from the tropics.  The Maroon-tailed Parakeet lives in northern South America.  In Ecuador it is found...

Most encounters people have with turkeys either involve a dead, roasted bird on a dinner table or sliced turkey between two pieces of bread....

The Great Bustard (Otis tarda) is one of the largest flying birds on the planet, topped only by the Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) and,...

The subjects of love, sex and relationships have transfixed people for longer than we can possibly know. The many different ways people carry out...

Warning, if you can’t tell by the title of the post, it’s going to get a little blue in this post. Most of us...

Whilst leading a birding tour to Sri Lanka, I spotted a flash of bright white in a lily-choked wetland near Ambalantota in the south-east...

American Oystercatchers, with their orange, carrot-like bills and piercing cries, are a familiar sight on the east coast of the United States. It is...