When you think of the best birding in the south of Asia, it is Malaysia that comes to mind, although you are likely not...

Collins Birds of the World is “a must for the travelling birder,” as the BBC Wildlife Magazine reviewer has put it. And I cannot...

Some people read cookbooks though they have no intention of whipping up a mushroom risotto, some people read bird guide books, even when the...

“Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea” by James A. Eaton, Bas van Balen, Nick W. Brickle and Frank E. Rheindt is...

Of all the living things in our world to be passionate about, mushrooms may rate as the most unlikely. Ranging in color from off-white...

For several years I lived and birded in the south of Africa, and still have my battered second edition (1997) of the Sasol Birds...

If you want to write a bird guide, you should have guided people yourself. Being a professional ornithologist and knowing your field well is...

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...