It is Tuesday night, and I am sitting in a historic hotel, just a kilometer or so north of the Scotland/England border. It seemed...

I am something of an aficionado of National Wildlife Refuges. On this site, I have attempted to list the top 25 NWRs for birding,...

July often means travel, which sometimes means tourist attractions, which occasionally means exotic or introduced bird species. Following me here? Encountering exotics raises all...

In the open woodlands not far from Broome we regularly encounter Jacky Winters–Microeca fascinans pallida. Jacky Winters are widespread across much of Australia apart from...

Where to go birding without the crowds in our busiest national park (with an update at the bottom). In the Great Smoky Mountains National...

It’s all been happening this month. Just when we thought that the beats deserved a quiet month after the exertions of May, they came...

These are the summer months of the northern hemisphere and yet this time of year in Costa Rica is known as the “invierno”, Spanish...

July rarely ranks high in the list of top birding months. Too few species on the move makes for the same old same old....