May delivers one of those amazing times of the year when we’re too busy looking at birds to sit around talking about them. Let’s...
If you’re out in the woods this spring, trying to see the Woodcock (like that below, left) in the evening, doing his skydance, or...
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos have become a regular sight around Broome in recent weeks. They are usually heard before they are seen and call raucously as...
As of next month I am assuming that the airline industry will have no further use for my services and a bleak outlook looms....
What could be more boring than starting a blog post with a Wikipedia quotation? So here goes: “The symbol of a bluebird as the...
Luck is a funny thing. It always presents itself in unexpected ways, seemingly to deliberately confuse and mislead. Last year we reunited with a...
We birders must really love what we do, because the social cost of doing it is pretty high. I’m not talking about being shunned,...
How many birders are there in America? For such a simple question, it turns out there are very few solid estimates. Indeed, there appears...
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