Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) was among the first 75 species listed...

Black Woodpeckers are usually easy to find in Germany. Yes, some birders may frown at this statement. At least one birder will now likely...

I have yet to meet a birder who did not consider dippers to be special. Any dipper, any continent, any birder. This special place...

I guess we can universally agree that the colonial times were a rather selfish period of European history. There is indeed little good that...

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

I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s...

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...