How that the traditional winter holidays are over and the calendar year itself about to give way to the new year, the time has...

I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed...

The year is nearly over and that’s always a good excuse to talk about our best birds from the past 12 months. With more...

According to NORAD, Santa is already on the move. Many of you may be as well. In the mad rush to count birds and...

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post), this year I invited two more wildlife protection...

Africa has a superabundance of antelopes, and one of the cutest and most unusual is the Klipspringer. Literally ‘rock-jumper’ in Afrikaans, this tiny antelope...

Yesterday, Sunday, 20 December, was the 2015 Queens County Christmas Bird Count. With the mild weather we had been experiencing we had high hopes...

Many weekends come and go without great birds, but during the Christmas Bird Count, most field ornithologists have reason to beat the bushes. Let’s...