While I am still not so sure about China’s sense of humor – though admittedly, the issue is mostly a mismatch between what I...

I don’t know what the experience is like in other parts of the world – so do let me know – but at least...

So here are some numbers: As I write this, on March 24th, my 2022 list includes 239 species, all from within the state of...

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes–Coracina novaehollandiae are a common bird species around our home in Broome, Western Australia. They are present throughout much of Australia and as...

In the great tradition of authors reporting on and from global hotspots (think Hemingway or Orwell during the Spanish Civil War), this post is...

Necessity being the mother of invention, and all that, the almost-total disappearance of Mexico’s second-largest lake in the spring of 2021 forced me to...

Jianfengling National Forest Park is a park in the West of Hainan – the tourist websites claim that it is “the largest and best-preserved tropical...

The Willie Wagtail–Rhipidura leucophrys is one of Australia’s most widespread bird species, but it is not observed all year round close to our home...