Our first full day in the Land of Many Waters predictably began with a trip on one of these many waters. After leaving our...

Tern lovers rejoice! A new book about the angelic-looking, identification-stumping birds of the oceans, rivers, and marshes has finally been published! And it’s fantastic....

What a bountiful year it’s been for birding books! We’ve gotten them all—field guides to foreign countries; memoirs and big year books; narratives about...

This November, I went birding in Shanghai exactly once – the result of both some unpleasant changes in the accessibility of some good birding...

The Dutch Island of Texel is well-known amongst European birders due to the exciting number and quality of birds it attracts during spring and...

As a general rule, birders don’t like hybrids. For a start, they may struggle to identify them, while secondly they can’t even tick them....

When I grew up in the seventies we didn’t have global warming, we had global cooling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling). Consequently, the summer weather was awful, always....

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to learn how to draw, but alas I never made it past the stickman. More precisely...