Over President’s Day weekend my family and I took a much-needed break in Jamaica. We landed mid-afternoon on the fifteenth of February and flew...

I have previously written about the central Mexican highlands’ very own microendemic species, the Black-polled Yellowthroat. This bird is only found around three lakes...

Have you ever had one of those weekends where every project you took on failed, perhaps spectacularly? Some weeks, Monday feels more like a...

Just before we left Victoria and returned home to Broome I was doing one of my regular walks from Foster to Fish Creek. I...

It’s the same the whole world over. A rare bird draws a crowd of optics and men of a certain age. The Tokyo Bay...

As one season begins to shade ever so slightly–or perhaps heavily, depending on your latitude–new birding opportunities open up. If you focus on first...

This week’s featured wine at Birds and Booze isn’t our first pinot noir, nor is it our first Barn Owl (in fact, this marks...

Strange as it may seem, this is not an entry into a “most boring blog headline” contest. Rather, it is derived from an obscure...