You know things are getting desperate when you get excited by an unexpected flock of Starlings. Here I was, six days into a trip...

During my vacation with friends close to Cannes in southern France, my priority was of course to catch up and spend some quality time...

Handsome but never flashy, the Old World Buntings are a fascinating family of birds. There are no fewer than 45 of them, of which...

Okay, not truly near Bonn, but I made a feeble yet desperate attempt to have the title be an alliteration. Only after I came...