Maybe this kingfisher should have chosen another island to live on – according to one paper on the species, Java is the most densely...

Unfortunately, I only saw two owl species during my week or so on Sulawesi – for a comprehensive description of the owls on the...

Parrots are among the most threatened of all birds – of the 202 parrot species of the Old World and Africa, only a bit...

Tomohon is a town in North Sulawesi about 30 km south of Manado, the city and airport where birders are most likely to arrive....

Yes, I know. It would have been quite hard to come up with a lamer headline than the one above. And the “standard” in...

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

What I truly hate about the pandemic is that it mentally puts me back into the 1990s in the Balkans. Tensions, failing economy, depression...

Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why field guides that arrange...