Penguins! Penguins here! <pause> Do I have your attention now? There are few bird names that will elicit great big smiles and Penguin is...
I was lucky to visit India several times, but as a keen birder I carried along only a bird book, and even upgraded it...
If you want to write a bird guide, you should have guided people yourself. Being a professional ornithologist and knowing your field well is...
A bird of prey showed up in the tiny park across the boulevard from me yesterday, setting himself down on a park bench and...
One good thing about birding during a pandemic–the forced restrictions on place and time translate into more time to observe what birds do. And...
There is a thing parents know very well – how important it is to choose the right name for a child. E.g. one Croat...
From its boreal forest to steppes which once trembled under the hooves of Genghis Khan’s hordes, and from the Gobi Desert to the Altai...
“Look around, look around…” The refrain is from Hamilton, a demand and a plea to look with the brain and the heart and then...
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