In Germany, the last wild living Ural Owl was shot in 1926, though there has been a reintroduction program in Bavaria that started in...

Birdwatching is all about timing. Sometimes you get it right, but sometimes you don’t. Last week my companion Andrew and I set off for...

I first remember being introduced to the field of island biogeography in a dark, empty lecture hall at Oregon State University in an advanced...

Most birders refer to some bird species as their nemesis. That is what we call a bird we probably should have seen already, but...

In the Pronojiwo area of East Java, there is an unassuming hide at the edge of a village. It hosts two species of kingfishers....

Sulawesi has two species of hornbills. Both are more or less endemic to Sulawesi (give or take a few islands nearby), and both are...

I’m sitting on the edge of the Doñana wetland in south-west Spain. The sea mists have driven into the coast but it’s mild. As...

I visited Vilanculos once with my family, mainly to do the things most people do when visiting this site – enjoying the coast, eating...