Early morning finds me driving southeast through spruce forests, mountain meadows, pastures and an occasional potato field, across Mt. Zlatar in western Serbia, heading...

Charleston is a beautiful place for a wedding, and at the end of May that’s just where I was headed to watch a good...

“Costa Rica borders two oceans. The country has a healthy list of pelagic species. There are no pelagic trips”. That ironic pseudo-haiku almost sums...

Gaborone, Botswana; June 1999 Marvellous orange-pink sunrise high over the Indian Ocean… Then, landing on a small airport at Gaborone, Botswana. Impossibly bright blue...

Over Memorial Day weekend (23-25 May) my family and I spent the weekend along the Delaware shore enjoying the beaches, natural areas, and tourist...

I’ve never been one to be overly concerned about whether a bird “counts”. People, and organisations, have complex and elaborate rules about whether a...

There are lots of great birding sites in Costa Rica. In fact, go anywhere with a good amount of natural forest and the birding...

What do you think makes for a good bird hide? I have asked myself that same question many times over the last six months,...