Birds wanting to make more birds often do crazy stuff, and birders are well accustomed to encountering splendid plumage features, impossible feather structures, crazy...

ACT I SCENE I. Iron Gates (Djerdap) national park, Serbia. Small canyon among wooded hills. Morning. Framed by red Permian sandstone, Eric Hyman is...

Sandy terrains are at their best during spring migration and this is the off season for such habitats. July is that boring period after...

The Common Moorhen still is in Germany what its name implies: common. Well, it is rather common and can even be scarce regionally, but...

There is no denying the fact that birders are a discriminating bunch. This seems to apply especially to birders in North American since most...

It has been a while since I birded a new area for the first time – I sure missed the feeling. And now I...

I recently saw and photographed what appears to be a Baikal Wagtail (Motacilla alba-or-not baicalensis) in Germany. If I am correct, this would apparently...

Now finally, here is the third and last part of my mini-series on the taxonomic offspring of the Herring Gull, in which I’ll cover the...