On a recent all-too-brief visit to that Mecca of birding in my home borough I was doing my best to get some good flight...

Our annual ration of glorious June weekends is now half-spent. Did you make the most of yours? A number of lovely midsummer birds crossed...

This week has been dominated by one bird over this side of the pond, early Monday morning, not the sort of time you want...

Some weeks can be very hard and the last week was one of them. Thank goodness we can appreciate the natural environment around us...

Who doesn’t love a macaw? Big, bold, beautiful parrots full of character and charm, macaws make us long for some of the world’s wildest...

The Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibunus, is similar in many ways to Bonaparte’s Gull, Larus philadelphia of North America. They are both small “black-headed” gulls...

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is what oceanographers call ultraoligotrophic, meaning that it has low primary productivity. Basically there just aren’t enough nutrients to sustain...

I’ve been to a lot of birding festivals—sometimes as a speaker, sometimes as a trip leader, and sometimes just because I love going to...