My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! Although in raw numbers (843 species recorded to date) it...

As a bird blogger in these days of the social-media-heavy internet it is important to properly calibrate your blog’s social media presence. Too little...

Big birds don’t get erections the way that it has always been thought that they do.  They use lymph fluid to get erect, not...

Is it better, to paraphrase that ragged old aphorism, to have birded and dipped than never to have birded at all? What if you...

Rogitama Private Nature Reserve, about 3 hours drive north of Bogota, is a true success story. Founded by Roberto Chavarro and his family in...

Anyone thinking that it’s time to slow down needs to think again. The temperatures may not be conducive to shorts and T-shirt but there...

Time for some poetry! What can I say about Roebuck Bay… The pindan cliffs, the miles of sea A seabed full of history. What...

Well, maybe that isn’t exactly what happened here but police officers from New York were told to stop messing around with Fred the pigeon....