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

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...

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,...

If your holiday plans include the Christmas Bird Count and there are kids in your life, considering getting a copy of the picture book BIRD...

The Uckermark is located about 80 km northeast of Berlin. This area is easy to reach from Berlin by train. Interesting bird species can...