For me, the Christmas/New Year break is a very particular time of the year. It provides me with a peculiar and unusual mix of...

Say you are in Johannesburg for business, and you are really tired of sitting in the dark during the inevitable South African load shedding....

Few birds are as confusingly named as the three species of wagtails we see regularly in Britain. The best-named is the Pied Wagtail, the...

[Post updated 12/25/24] The Kingsyard company is known for their thoughtfully designed, durable bird products and their commitment to conservation—so when I was offered...

Regular readers of this blog would know by now that I spent about a week and a half at the legendary Rancho Naturalista in...

I find it interesting that a functional structure, like a lighthouse, has such a siren call that many people flock to it. Whether you...

While Cat Tien has the Black-and-red Broadbill (and some others that I did not see), Di Linh has two other species of broadbill –...

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