As I write these lines, I am excited and preparing for the start of a Calpe Conference here in Gibraltar. We have been organizing...

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....

What does the average person go looking for, in a new place to live? Close to schools, grocery store, a nice neighborhood, all things...

With its bright yellow eyes, and bold arrow shaped breast markings, the Gray Thrasher, Toxostomsa cincerum is one of my favorite photography targets. This...

In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, not a magical place—you’re thinking of Tahiti, Agent Coulson.) But it’s not always so...

If one was a serious twitcher – kinda like Phoebe Snetsinger (who saw approximately 8,400 species before her death), Tom Gullick (reputedly the first...

Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Only twenty years...

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