Living on Gibraltar, I am, at 36oN, just north of the Sahara Desert. I often wonder what the bird distribution would be like here...

Still in California! And yet ANOTHER couple of days that I can dedicate for chasing birds around the Golden State. And if you recall...

By Dominic Mitchell Dominic Mitchell’s earliest birding memory is of seeing an Atlantic Puffin off the Bass Rock, in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, in...

Lake Constance (of the Bodensee in German) is a huge lake on the border of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The place is very popular...

I’m really a birdwatcher, not a bird photographer, though these days I usually carry a camera. I do so for a variety of reasons,...

While I have picked up 26 lifers so far this year, all but seven have been from outside of Mexico, and only two have...

The dark, sinuous body slipped up and down, through the patch of water lilies. I watched as it surfaced, with a large fish in...

Starting this week, we will have two new series of blog posts, with entries written by various authors. In the “Ask a Birder” series,...