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...

The Bornean Bristlehead is kind of the star bird of Sepilok. eBird calls it “a ‘grail bird’ of many birders visiting Borneo. Ironically, while...

Back in July, my fellow 10,000 Birds contributor Dragan wrote a delightful piece about birding Lake Kerkini in spring. I first visited Kerkini and...

Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown, a quaint, sprawling network of roads and waterways is a regulated introduction to the country’s 800+ species of birds....