In a strange city on business, with more than just a few hours to spare? You want to do some serious birding? You need...

My recent posts may have given the impression that business birding is always exotic, on remote islands or with lots of birds. Seeing Solitary...

Work brings me regularly to Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, northern Mexico. Monterrey is a big industrial city, with industrious people. It is a special...

The Tagus estuary (Estuário do Tejo) is a very important stop-over on the East Atlantic Flyway. The birding delights of the estuary are a...

Before anything else, a confession. Most of the lifers I saw in Denver were named after (in)famous people, so Messrs. Say, Bullock, Brewer, and...

When I grew up in the seventies we didn’t have global warming, we had global cooling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling). Consequently, the summer weather was awful, always....

By Peter Penning Peter Penning is a sustainability management consultant who spends many weeks abroad away from his homes in The Netherlands (work) and...

By Aleksandar Topalov A long-distance move and a visit to a picturesque little seaside town on New Zealand’s east coast awoke a deep passion...