The danger of reviewing a field guide to the birds of an exotic country you’ve never been to is that you become obsessed with...

My best bird of the weekend was a Great Black-backed Gull, a rarity in a land-locked Serbia, with less than 10 observations so far....

I initially bought iBird Pro in one of its earlier versions for one reason and one reason only. Bird vocalizations. If I was going out...

It’s six weeks to the day till I go to Africa, and of late conversations about the subject have taken a reliable and predictable...

The second edition of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition has one of the longest book names in bird bookdom: National...

As some of you may be aware, I spend a lot of time on aeroplanes, working my way to exotic locations and then stumbling...

Every birder wants the best optics possible. But what that means often depends on circumstance. I love my Swarovski EL 8x32s deeply, but sometimes...

It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying attention.  Three books will...