Poinciana trees are not native to Australia, but they grow very well in the north and are often found in local parks. Most people...

December birding in Costa Rica is a time of transition. Finally, the rains seem to have gone, at least on the Pacific slope and...

November in Shanghai means the large-scale return of buntings, such as the smallest of them, the appropriately named Little Bunting.   However, the most...

After countless drives in the dead of night, scouring powerlines and treetops in the darkness for any sight of one of Tobago’s best kept...

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of...

Last Sunday, 27th November, we went to the Port of Broome to see what birds were about after a few days of teasing weather....

On that glorious day, I observed ten critically endangered birds, representing 8% of their Costa Rican, or 2% of their global population!! But, let’s...

This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Despite the absence of two major publishers—Lynx and HMH–from the new...